By IANS
Mumbai : Photography connoisseurs and professionals will have a virtual treat as the World Press Photo (WPP) comes to India – for the first time – in Mumbai Friday.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and Congress leader Ambika Soni will inaugurate the exhibition at the Express Towers in south Mumbai, a spokesperson for WPP told IANS. The Indian Express Group will host the exhibition and it will be open to the public till Jan 11.
This year, 4,460 professional photographers from 124 countries entered 78,083 images to compete in what is considered as the world’s most prestigious international competition in press photography.
In 2006, American photographer Spencer Platt’s colour entry showing a group of young Lebanese driving through a Beirut neighbourhood devastated by Israeli bombings was adjudged the ‘photograph of the year’.
The 2007 WPP jury chaired by Michele McNally assistant managing editor The New York Times and comprising eminent media personalities, awarded prizes in 10 categories to 58 photographers from 23 countries.
Every year the Amsterdam-based WPP assembles its prize winning photographs in an exhibition, which travels to 45 countries and is viewed by over two million people.