World Press Awards

// February 10th, 2012 // b-inspired, featured // Paper Boat Creative

Professionals, amateurs and photography enthusiasts alike will be eagerly awaiting the results of the 55^th World Press Contest as it reaches a verdict for the photojournalist of the year on the 10^th February 2012.

The competition which is run by a non-profit organization, founded in the Netherlands in 1955, is the world’s largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest in the world; the role of photojournalism highlighted to an audience of millions.  2011 also saw the first additional contest for Multimedia submissions.

The travelling exhibition of the prize winning photographs reaches 45 countries and is an opportunity to not only showcase talent, but highlight the human condition.

Jodi Bieber won the Photo of the Year, 2011 with her portrait of Bibi Aisha, 18, whom ‘was disfigured as retribution for fleeing her husband’s house in Oruzgan province, in the center of Afghanistan’.

Any guess on who the winners might be this year?