2021 World Press Photo Contests nominees announced
We are proud to introduce the nominees for the 64th World Press Photo Contest and 11th Digital Storytelling Contest - including the nominees for the World Press Photo of the Year, World Press Photo Story of the Year, World Press Photo Interactive of the Year and World Press Photo Online Video of the Year.
“The nominated images, stories and productions we introduce today present different perspectives of one of the most important years in recent history, marked by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the social rights movements around the world. Amongst the nominees are remarkable stories of hope, resilience, and social change. I would like to thank the independent jury for their dedication and commitment in selecting the stories that mattered in 2020,” said Joumana El Zein Khoury, executive director of the World Press Photo Foundation.
World Press Photo Story of the Year nominees
The World Press Photo Story of the Year award honors the photographer whose visual creativity and skills produced a story with excellent editing and sequencing that captures or represents an event or issue of great journalistic importance that year. The three nominees for World Press Photo Story of the Year are:
Those Who Stay Will Be Champions
Chris Donovan, Canada
The Flint Jaguars basketball team in Flint, Michigan, United States, embodies efforts to nurture stability, encourage mutual support and strengthen community spirit in a city struggling to survive. Basketball is an integral part of Flint culture, and the city once produced dozens of big names at collegiate and professional levels. For decades, four high school teams battled as fierce rivals. Now there is only one high school in town. In 2020, the team fought to turn around what had up until then been a nearly winless history. By March, they were prepared to head to the divi
A Hong Kong university has scrapped an exhibition of World Press Photo winners just days ahead of its opening, citing safety and security fears.
The decision by Hong Kong Baptist University comes as Beijing and local authorities oversee a sweeping crackdown on dissent in the city.
World Press Photo is an annual competition that awards the best visual journalism around the world each year.
AFP photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba bagged last year s top prize with an image of a man in Sudan reciting poetry during anti-government protests.
The exhibition was also set to include prize-winning images of the huge and often violent pro-democracy protests that swept Hong Kong in 2019.
University ‘de-recognises’ student body over freedoms push
The Chinese University of Hong Kong said in a statement on Thursday that it is “severing ties” with the union on national security grounds, claiming the union cabinet known as Syzygia had made allegedly false statements. The unprecedented move effectively de-recognises the university’s student union.
Relations between the university administration and the union had reached breaking point over the union’s push to maintain on-campus freedoms.
The university said it would stop collecting fees on behalf of the student union, stop providing venues for its activities, withhold administrative support, suspend its members from their positions on all university committees, and require it to register as an independent body and assume legal responsibility for itself.
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