At the Slaughterhouse in Rome the exhibition of the 64th edition of World Press Photo

Back in Rome, for the first time at the Slaughterhouse, is the World Press Photo exhibition. The exhibition, promoted by Roma Capitale - Assessorato alla Crescita Culturale and AziendaSpeciale Palaexpo, conceived by the Amsterdam-based World Press Photo Foundation and organized by Azienda Speciale Palaexpo in collaboration with 10b Photography, will host the 141 finalist photos of the 64th edition of the prestigious photojournalism prize, which since 1955 has awarded several professional photographers each year for their best shots, thus contributing to building the history of the world’s best visual journalism.

For its 64th edition, the competition saw the participation of 4315 photographers from 130 different countries who submitted a total of 74470 images to compete for the title in the 8 different categories of the photojournalism competition: Contemporary Issues, Environment, General News, Long-Term Projects, Nature, Portraits, Sports, Spot News.

Winning the two top prizes, World Press Photo of the Year and World Press Photo Story of the Year, were Danish photographer Mads Nissen and Italian Antonio Faccilongo, respectively. Nissen won with the photo The First Embrace (pictured), which shows an elderly woman embraced by a nurse in a nursing home for the first time in months in São Paulo, Brazil.

Faccilongo won with his project Habibi, a reportage on the smuggling of sperm into Israeli prisons by Palestinian families who want to preserve their reproductive rights.

The photos on display chronicle the most relevant news stories of the previous year: the coronavirus, but also protests over the killing of George Floyd, the Nagorno-Karabakh war, fires in the Pantanal, the locust invasion in Kenya, and the removal of statues of controversial figures.

Antonio Faccilongo, Gabriele Galimberti, and Lorenzo Tugnoli are the three Italian photographers among the winners. In addition to one of the two major awards, Faccilongo also won in the long-term project category with his project. Galimberti won in the Portraits, Stories category with work for National Geographic on gun owners in the United States. Contrasto Agency’s Tugnoli in the Spot News, Stories category for his photos of the explosion in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, in August 2020.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, judging for the contest took place online. The independent jury, which changes every year, for this edition was chaired by director and co-founder of the photo.circle platform NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, who evaluated the photos along with: Ahmed Najm of Metrography Agency, the first photo agency in Iraq; visual director of the Russian online newspaper Takie Dela Andrei Polikanov; National Geographic’s deputy director of photography Kathy Moran; Kevin WY Lee, photographer and creative director; Mulugeta Ayene, photographer; and Pilar Olivares, photographer at Reuters.

Also on display this year is a section dedicated to Digital Storytelling with a series of videos chronicling the crucial events of our time.

The World Press Photo 2021 exhibition as a whole represents a historical document that allows us to relive the stories that characterize contemporaneity in its many facets. Its international character and the thousands of people around the world who visit the exhibition each year are a testament to the ability that images have to transcend cultural and linguistic differences in order to reach the highest and most immediate levels of communication.

The World Press Photo 2021 exhibition is open until August 22.

For all information you can visit the official website of the Slaughterhouse.

At the Slaughterhouse in Rome the exhibition of the 64th edition of World Press Photo

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