The World Press Photo exhibition - 2024 opened today, December 6, at the Odesa National Art Museum. 

This year, the award in the "Open Format" category was won by the series "War is Personal" by Ukrainian photographer Yulia Kochetova.

Also making it to the European region finals was Johanna Maria Fritz's project "Kakhovka Hydroelectric Plant: Flood in the Combat Zone", created during the evacuation of civilians during the flood.

The exhibition tour in Ukraine is organized by the Odesa Photo Days Festival. The exhibition will showcase 129 photographs documenting war, protests, migration and climate crises, and other significant events from 2023. Finalists were selected from over 61,000 entries submitted by 3,851 participants from 130 countries.

The exhibition's realization in Ukraine was made possible thanks to the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine. Kyiv was the first city in the exhibition tour, with over 1,000 visitors seeing the exhibition at the Dovzhenko Centre from late October to mid-November.

Overall, the exhibition will feature works from each of the 31 regional winners across 24 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Myanmar, Palestine, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, the United States, and Venezuela.

The exhibition will run from December 6, 2024, to January 12, 2025. 
Admission: 150 / 75 UAH.

The World Press Photo Foundation is an independent organization that supports photojournalists and documentary photographers while promoting the development of global photojournalism. The organization has its own academy and conducts workshops and seminars.

Odesa Photo Days is an international festival of contemporary photography, founded in 2015 in response to the war in Eastern Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. Since February 24, 2022, the festival has not been held; instead, the team has been working with Ukrainian photographers and the international community to spread information about the war in Ukraine and assist those affected by it.