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TODAY (Oct 16) WORLD PRESS PHOTO

15/10/2009 10:07:00
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About two hundred award winning works for this year’s 52nd World Press Photo Contests will be on display at the Macau Fisherman’s Wharf, Lisbon 2, from today until November 6, daily, between noon and 8pm.
This event is an initiative from Macau “Casa de Portugal” Association with the support of local media, of which the Macau Daily Times is part. It aims to offer Macau’s population and visitors the chance to admire what was regarded – and thus awarded – as the best works of professional photo-journalists world-wide published in the year of 2008. The international jury including renowned members from the Media gathered in Amsterdam selected winners among thousands of photos sent by hundreds of journalists from dozens of countries.
The 2009 ‘Photo of the Year’ was awarded to Anthony Suau (and published in 2008 in ‘Time’ magazine), while the first prize on Sports category – one of the 10 categories included – was given to Xinhua news agency’s photo-journalist Wu Xiaoling.
World Press Photo is one of the most prestigious photo-journalism contests around the world attracting as many as two million visitors in 45 different countries last year. The first international photo-journalism contest was held in 1955, in Amsterdam, launched by the Dutch journalists association.
The Macau “Casa de Portugal” Association has already assured the World Press Photo exhibition, that usually travels the world, from London to Tokyo, São Paulo and Paris, will come again to the territory in 2010 and 2011.

Time: 12 a.m - 8 p.m.
Until: November 6
Venue: Fisherman’s Wharf, Lisbon 2
Admission: Free
Organisers:
Macau Casa de Portugal Association
Telephone enquiries: (853) 287 26828
Email:portugal@macau.ctm.net

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