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World Press Photo Exhibition in University Square starting May 8
The World Press Photo photojournalism exhibition, the most important event of its kind worldwide, will be brought again in Bucharest, in the University Square, over May 8-29, reads a release.
The exhibition, organised by the Eidos Foundation, includes 140 pictures part of the annual international exhibition World Press Photo, which can be seen at venues around the globe, in approximately 100 cities in 45 countries and seen by approximately 3.5 million people.
The visitors will have thus the chance to admire the Photography of the Year at the World Press Photo - the famous image of the American photographer John Stanmeyer illustrating a series of African immigrants on the shore of Djibouti city at night, raising their phones in an attempt to capture an inexpensive signal from neighboring Somalia - a tenuous link to relatives abroad.
\\\'The present is a unique moment in history, a pioneering moment, when the technological innovations has gone so far that they came to democratize the self-expression. For the first time in history, the individual has no longer the power of a single person, but of all the others who share the same beliefs - a power reunited through technology. We are not organising the exhibition in the University Square with a certain target category in mind, but we are organising it for everybody to see it, since all of us can get inspiration from the images that are exposed,\\\' said Cristian Movila, founder of the Eidos Foundation and a photographer himself.
The WPP Exhibition is a initiative of World Press Foundation, founded in 1955 in the Netherlands operating as an independent non-profit organisation headquartered in Amsterdam, The activity of the foundation is devoted to the establishment of high standards in photojournalism,documentary photography at global level.
The first edition of the competition took place in 1955, when the jury received more than 300 pictures from 42 photographers representing 11 countries. In 2012, 5,246 participants from 124 countries sent 101,254 pictures.
The exhibition was brought to Bucharest for the first time in 2012, after a break of 18 years, by the Eidos Foundation, which also organised the exhibition last year.
The Eidos cultural foundation wast created in 2009 at the initiative of photographer Cristian Movila, aimed at supporting the young artists. The projects and initiatives of the Eidos Foundation are addressed to all those who are passionate about art.