Canon Australia will present an exhibition of the winners of the most prestigious international contest in professional press photography, World Press Photo, in Australia in May.
March 1, 2006: Canon Australia will present an exhibition of the winners of the most prestigious international contest in professional press photography, World Press Photo, in Australia in May. The exhibition will include eye-catching – and at times confronting – images from all over the world and showcase the very best of photojournalism from the past year. It will also bring to public attention images that have been censored by the media because of the harsh realities they convey. This year 4,448 professional photographers from 122 countries entered 83,044 images. The winning image for World Press Photo of the Year 2005 shows the emaciated fingers of a one-year-old child pressed against the lips of his mother at an emergency feeding clinic in Niger. A devastating swarm of locusts and the worst drought in decades left millions of people short of food in the African state. The picture was taken in north-western Niger by Canadian photographer Finbarr O’Reilly of Reuters, who will receive a cash prize of 10,000 euro (A$16,000) plus an EOS-1D Mark II N camera.
Australian photographers always feature prominently in the line up of winners and this year is no exception. The Australian winners for 2005 include:
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