This year, he says, all the images have been thoroughly checked before the shortlists have been announced, let alone the winners. “All the checking is already done – all raw files, where the images were shot, everything,” he tells BJP. “We know how important it is that everything can be trusted, and we keep asking questions until we are satisfied. We wouldn’t announce the shortlists unless we were.”
The Visa Pour l’Image festival returns for the 29th time – to “turbulent time”, in which “photojournalists are obviously needed, and play an essential role which is now more important than ever” as the co-founder and director general Jean-François Leroy puts it
Lars Boering, managing director of World Press Photo, joined the organisation in January 2015, just…
“It’s a great news picture in the traditional way, and obviously the photographer himself demonstrated…
Burhan Ozbilici wasn’t even working when he shot his World Press Photo-winning image – he…
