The World Press Photo (WPP) Exhibition is currently on at Padang Merdeka, Kuching in conjunction with WAK 2018.
KUCHING: A World Press Photo (WPP) Exhibition was installed and launched at Padang Merdeka here last month in conjunction with What About Kuching (WAK) 2018.
According to a press release, the travelling exhibition is set to visit 100 different cities in 45 countries over the course of the year.
Apart from that, the press release also mentioned that the theme – Stories that Matter – fits in well within WAK’s mission statement ‘From the People, For the People’.
“The 66 award-winning photographs are from WPP’s 61st photo contest and they were selected from a total of 73,044 submissions, taken by 4,548 photographers from 125 different countries.
“The photos are a showcase with the objective to allow these Stories that Matter to reach out to us, to make us think about today’s world and to start a discussion around these subjects,” added the press release.
Following the launch, a series of lectures were held at The Waterfront Hotel on visual and constructive journalism and ethics surrounding photojournalism by Laurens Korteweg, Director of Exhibitions at the World Press Photo Foundation.
This travelling exhibition is co-organised by WAK Festival and the Sarawak Museum Department, and is generously sponsored by the Netherlands Embassy in Kuala Lumpur and Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak.
The design and installation of the exhibition is supported by Limkokwing Institute of Creative Technology Kuching.