From September 15-17 the World Press Photo Exhibition will be on display at the Hilton Arts Festival in Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal. This will be the first time the World Press Photo Exhibition has visited KwaZulu-Natal province in over two decades.
Every year the World Press Photo Exhibition brings to a global audience the very best of photojournalism and visual story telling taken by the World’s foremost professional press, news and documentary photographers. Each year the Exhibition travels to a 100 cities in 45 countries and is seen by an audience of over four million people. The exhibition is made up of the award-winning photographs from the World Press Photo Contest that is run according to a strict code of ethics that upholds best practice for press photography. For the 2017 Contest 5,034 professional photographers entered 80,408 photographs that were adjudicated by specialist juries from many of the World’s leading publications. The World Press Photo Foundation receives support from the Dutch Postcode Lottery and is sponsored worldwide by Canon.
In 2017 KwaZulu-Natal based organization, Africa Media Online, has partnered with World Press Photo to bring the 2017 World Press Photo Exhibition to the Hilton Arts Festival. As a companion to the World Press Photo Exhibition, Africa Media Online will also be running the related DocuFest Africa mini-festival showcasing the work of leading South African photographers and curators.
A loggerhead sea turtle swims entangled in abandoned fishing gear, off the coast of Tenerife, Canary Islands, in the northeast Atlantic Ocean. The loggerhead is classed as a ‘vulnerable’ species globally by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, but the northeast Atlantic subpopulation is listed as ‘endangered’. Entrapment in nets intended for other species, and in gear left abandoned by fishing boats is the prime threat to marine turtles, followed by human consumption of meat and eggs, and coastal development affecting their habitat. PHOTO: © Francis Pérez
Exhibition:
The World Press Photo Exhibition 2017
Venue:
Raymond Slater Library upstairs in the Centenary Centre at Hilton College
Dates:
Friday September 15 – Sunday September 17
Time:
Friday and Saturday 9 am – 8:30 pm, Sunday 9 am – 6 pm
Tickets:
Tickets are available at the door and NOT from the Hilton Arts Festival ticket office. A ticket gives you entry into the exhibition and all 8 of the DocuFest Africa presentations by leading South Africa photographers and curators.
Tickets can also be purchased ahead of the event online
Charges:
R120 pp for adults
R65 for children under 16 and pensioners with a pensioners card
R40 per child for school groups over 10
Information:
Click here for more of the story behind the World Press Photo Exhibition 2017 at the Hilton Arts Festival
Click here for the DocuFest Africa 2017 programme and ticket information
Click here for the story behind DocuFest Africa 2017
Enquiries: email: pictures@africamediaonline.com, call: 033 345 9445 and choose option 1
