World Press Photo: Overview

each year themes in the world press
photo exhibit are influenced by the
events of that year hi I’m Rebecca
Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be checking out some of the
most striking photos from the world
press photo tour of 2009 how is the
world press competition evolved since
started in 1955 we started with 300
entries in 1955 we’re now at
ninety-seven thousand images almost for
more than five nine thousand
photographers tell us more about the
role and significance of photojournalism
in reporting today like 10 years ago you
would give a photographer a year to do
this assignment to go to a place you
know of interest and then let him shoot
it and investigate the whole situation
and after year you would you would say
okay this is good rep retire going to
publish it nowadays magazines and
newspapers have less money but also less
time to have a photographer spend this
time on an assignment how does citizen
journalism affect photojournalism you
always have people with a mobile phone
and sometimes newspapers choose to
publish this image so it influences
Press photography but on the other hand
good photography is only possible by
good photographers will who have a good
eye for for the subject what are some
elements that you would say give a photo
its impact it’s a lot of aesthetics has
to have a journalistic value but that is
that is for fresh photography like the
way we look at it thank you very much
thank you