World Press Photo 2024
at the CCCB
World Press Photo 2024
at the CCCB
Exhibition at the CCCB
World Press Photo 2024
World Press Photo 2024
Exhibition at the CCCB
until 15 December 2025
The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) is showing the photographs awarded by the World Press Photo Foundation for the 20th time. The exhibition offers an overview of the most important topics and events of the past year, which are documented in the award-winning works. Only until 15 December!
World Press Photo 2024
Tickets
The details
at a glance
Exhibition:
World Press Photo 2024
Exhibition at the CCCB
8 November until 15 December 2025
Opening hours:
Tuesday to Thursday, 11.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m.
Friday: 11.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.
Saturday: 10.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.
Sundays and public holidays (6 and 8 December): 10.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m.
Monday: closed.
Prices:
EUR 6 for adults aged 26 and over (for one exhibition)
EUR 4 for children between 13 and 25 years, senior citizens over 65 years
Articket:
EUR 38
6 museums for one price: Picasso Museum, Fondacio Miro, MNAC, Fundacio Tapies, MACBA and CCCB. Including exhibitions.
More about the Articket.
Important note:
The exhibition is not for small children, as the photos often depict war and suffering and are difficult to understand.
The Dutch World Press Photo Foundation is an independent, non-profit organisation based in Amsterdam. Founded in 1955, the organisation is known for organising an annual press photo competition.
Since 2011, World Press Photo has organised a separate annual competition for journalistic multimedia productions and, in collaboration with Human Rights Watch, the annual Tim Hetherington Grant.
What is
World Press Photo?
For the 20th time, the Photographic Social Vision Foundation is organising the exhibition of the year’s award-winning press photos at the CCCB premises, and this time for Barcelona. This is a travelling exhibition.
The CCCB is a large cultural centre with often parallel special exhibitions, concerts and conferences. The exhibitions are often very well-organised. So it’s worth taking a look to see if there is a topic that interests you. You can find more information here.
How were the award-winning photos selected?
A global jury, consisting of the chairs of the six regional juries of World Press Photo 2024, selected the four main prizes. These global winners were selected from the 24 regional winners that were previously announced.
World Press Photo
in Barcelona
Executive Director of the World Press Photo Foundation, Joumana El Zein Khoury, said: ‘This year’s selection contains stories of despair, hunger, war and loss, but also of perseverance, courage, love, family, dreams… and more butterflies than you can imagine.’
And so it is! It’s not light fare, even if the photos are often aesthetic. We are travelling around the world, through 6 regions: North and Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, South East Asia and Oceania.
The exhibition includes 24 winning projects selected from the 24 regional winners (i.e. 4 per region). Both the global and regional winners are exhibited here. Unlike previous editions, this one is less about individual photos and more about projects, which I found exciting. In terms of content, in addition to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, other topics are also covered, such as the war in Ukraine, the climate crisis, mental health, migration and family ties.
Die Ausstellung
World Press Photo 2024
The winning photo & photo reportage
Long-term project of the year
The winning photo
The exhibition welcomes us with a very large copy of the winning photo hanging at the entrance.
The World Press Photo of the Year goes to a Palestinian woman hugging the small body of her niece, by Palestinian photographer Mohammed Salem for Reuters. The photo shows Inas Abu Maamar, 36, holding the lifeless body of her niece Saly, five, who was killed along with her mother and sister when an Israeli missile hit their home in Khan Yunis, Gaza.
Photo reportage of the year
The prize goes to South African photographer Lee-Ann Olwage for the story Valim-babena for GEO. She portrays Paul Rakotozandriny. ‘Dada Paul’ (91 years old), who has been suffering from dementia for 11 years and is cared for by his daughter Fara Rafaraniriana (41 years old) – the only one of his children who realised a few years ago that her father was ill and had not gone mad or become an alcoholic, as the others thought.
The long-term project
It goes to Venezuelan photographer Alejandro Cegarra with ‘The Two Walls’ for The New York Times / Bloomberg. Based on his own experience as a migrant from his native Venezuela to Mexico in 2017, the photographer began this project in 2018, which shows the reality of migrants trying to cross the border to Mexico.
More winners
& Innovations
World Press Photo in open format
It goes to the Ukrainian photographer Julia Kochetova for ‘The war is personal’, a web project that combines documentary photojournalism, poetry, illustration and music – very exciting. In the style of a personal diary, it shows the world what it is like to live with war as a daily reality. You can view the project here (recommended): kochetova.rocks/War-Is-Personal-project
More artistic photography
What I particularly liked this year is the honouring of photographs of a more artistic nature, made possible by the Open Format category. This expansion of the boundaries of photography is an enrichment for the competition. I would like to emphasise Aletheia Casey’s retrospectively intervened photographs (so-called experimental photographs) and Kazuhiko Matsumura’s series on dementia (very subtle).
Butterflies as a pleasant change of pace
Not war, but a delicate animal takes centre stage in this winner. It is a comprehensive reportage by Jaime Rojo about the efforts of communities in Canada, the United States and Mexico to save the monarch butterfly. The fact that – and how – people in three different countries are taking care of the survival of these animals is impressive.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary celebrations of World Press Photo in Barcelona, we see an installation dedicated to press freedom and paying tribute to the more than one thousand (!) journalists who have been killed worldwide in the past 20 years (98 in 2023 alone). The names printed on long cloths, equipment for journalists in war zones and the sonorous installation make for an impressive memorial. In the same room, you can learn a lot about freedom of the press and how it is often disregarded. It is, so to speak, a small exhibition within the exhibition.
Commemoration of
killed journalists
Conclusion
I have something of a love-hate relationship with World Press Photo.
On the one hand, I am impressed by the quality of the photographs, the coherence of the reportage and the expressiveness of the images.
On the other hand, I am depressed by this exclusively negative view of what is happening in our world. Why photojournalism (or the images honoured here) almost exclusively depicts sad and tragic events is and remains a mystery to me.
Nevertheless, a visit to the exhibition is worthwhile because travelling around the world and gaining an insight into people’s fates always broadens our horizons. And that is definitely a positive thing.
Your Jacqueline
Text and image rights: © Céline Mülich, 2024
With the support of Jacqueline Glarner.
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