January 4, 2006
By SouthAfrica.Info Reporter
Please note: the exhibition dates have changed to 20 July - 13 August 2006.
THE celebrated World Press Photo exhibition comes to Johannesburg in February, featuring work by two South African photographers and a special portrait of South African Hollywood star Charlize Theron.
The World Press Photo 2005 exhibition, on at MuseuMAfrika in Newtown from 16 February to 10 March, will feature the best news photographs of 2004 taken by some of the world's most respected photo-journalists.
Photographers from 120 countries are represented, including two South African photographers, Jodi Bieber and Brent Stirton.
Bieber and Stirton were among the 2005 World Press Photo winners, with Bieber's portraits of survivors of domestic violence in South Africa taking second prize for photo stories in the contemporary issues category, and Stirton's portrait of a young Aids orphan standing in a field near Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal taking third prize for single photos in the portraits category.
Bieber and Stirton are both former World Press Photo winners: Stirton's portraits of Xhosa initiates was a 2003 winner in the portrait stories category, while Bieber's "Young Pakistani Girl" won first prize for portrait singles in 2002.
In 2001, Bieber's "Illegal Immigrants in South Africa" won first prize for daily life stories, while her picture "Ebola Crisis in Uganda" won third prize for photo stories in the people in the news category.
World Press Photo, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands is an independent, non-profit organisation founded in 1955 to promote the work of professional press photographers all over the world and elevate freedom of the press.
The organisation runs the world's largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest. After the contest, the prize-winning photographs are assembled into a travelling exhibition that is visited by over a million people in 40 countries. A yearbook presenting all prize-winning entries is published annually in six languages.
South African Juda Ngwenya, Reuters' chief photographer for southern Africa, was one of the World Press Photo 2005 judges.
The exhibition is being brought to Johannesburg by Vulindlela Communications and the Royal Netherlands Embassy in South Africa.
Source: The official South African portal: southafrica.info
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