They can be knee-shaking, disturbing, inspiring or world-changing. Powerful images from the world’s top news photographers are presented in Kyiv during the annual World Press Photo exhibition.
The contest has been running for 53 years and is regarded as the most prestigious in its field.
Don’t expect to muse in front of endless flower fields or turquoise seascapes. Images captured during wars, protests and natural disasters in 2009 spill over the walls of the Lavra gallery.
There is violence in Madagascar killing 28 people. There’s a baby girl buried in rubble after an Israeli offensive on Gaza. There is a U.S. soldier rushing out of the barracks in Afganistan in his “I Love NY” boxers after fire by the Taliban.
To rest your eyes and mind after the regular news categories, check out works in Arts, Portraits and Sports sections.
The jury gave prizes in 10 themed categories to 63 photographers of 23 nationalities in February.
Most of them work for world famous publications and agencies like the New York Times, Reuters, Associated Press and Agence France Press. Ukrainian Gleb Garanich from Reuters was among last year’s winners for his images from Georgia following the Russian-Georgian military conflict over South Ossetia in 2008.
This year’s best photo tells a story of Iranian people protesting election results on roof tops at night after daytime street riots.
Lavra Gallery (Sichnevoho Povstannya 17, near Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra) Aug 6-26, Tickets: Hr 20
