The most important photojournalism exhibition in the world makes a stop in Naples at the Pignatelli Museum. On display 150 shots of the winning press photographers of World Press Photo 2017.
From December 6 2017 7 to January 2018 go back to Napoli, in the splendid setting of the Pignatelli Museum, W, the most important exhibition in the world of photojournalism, now in its 62 edition.
But the World Press Photo 2017 it is also, and above all, a photojournalism contest that during the 2017 awarded the Turkish winner Burhan Ozbilici, which will be present at the inauguration, the 6 December 2017, at the Pignatelli Museum.
The exhibition, as every year, will be composed of 150 winning photos of the contest for categories General news, Spot news, Contemporary issues, Daily life, Portraits, Nature, Sport. The Neapolitan stage of the world tour will be an opportunity to get to know the most beautiful shots of the planet, made by professional photographers full of talent and desire to tell the world they know through their looks.
Who is Burhan Ozbilici, the winner of World Press Photo 2017
Burhan Ozbilici is the Associated Press reporter who had the courage to immortalize Mevlut Mert Altintas by chance, the policeman from Ankara who murdered the Turkish ambassador Andrey Karlov live on television in an art gallery, last December 2016.
His shot, which in a short time has been around the world, is intense and vivid and manages to grasp with clarity the dramatic and tragic moments of that absurd attack, in which the photojournalist deeply felt the responsibility of documenting that historical moment, even at the cost of his own life.
The history of World Press Photo
The World Press Photo exhibition was born in the 1955 in Amsterdam, when the World Press Photo Foundation decided to promote the first international journalistic photo-competition, which is attended by 6.000 professional photojournals from around the world every year with almost 80.000 shots.
Every year they are rewarded only 150 shots in different categories (General news, Spot news, Contemporary issues, Daily life, Portraits, Nature, Sport). It is with these 150 photos that is composed World Press Photo, the most visited photojournalism exhibition in the world. In fact, the exhibition travels to 45 countries in 100 cities around the world, attracting millions of visitors.
Program of meetings with photographers of World Press Photo 2017
Wednesday 6 December 2017 12.30 hours
Opening of the exhibition. Burhan Ozbilici, winner of the World Press Photo 2017 and local institutions will be present.
The inauguration will be accompanied by a musical intervention and refreshments.
Saturday 9 December 17.00 hours
First appointment with the public lectures of World press Photo Naples with the winner of World Press Photo 2017, Burhan Ozbilici.
Saturday 16 December 17.00 hours
Second appointment with the public lectures within the World Press Photo Naples 2017 exhibition, hosted by Gianni Cipriano.
Saturday 23 December at 17.00
Third appointment with the public lectures within the World Press Photo Naples 2017 exhibition, hosted by Antonio Gibotta, winner of the World Press Photo 2017 - 2nd Stories prize, People category.
Information about the World Press Photo 2017 exhibition
When: from the 6 December 2017 to the 7 January 2018. Inauguration of the 6 December 2017 12.30 hours.
Timetables:
- Monday - Friday: 8.30 - 17.00 (last admission 16.00)
- Saturday - Sunday: 8.30 - 21.00 (last admission at 20.00)
- Tuesday closing day
- Sunday 24 and 31 December: 8.30 - 17.00 (last entry 16.00 hours)
Price tickets:
- Full: 5 euro + 2,50 euro entrance to the Pignatelli Museum
- Reduced school groups: 3,50 euro
- Free admission for disabled guests
- Sunday 7 January: shows 5 euro (admission to the Museum is free)
