"70% of photography graduates are women but only 15% of professional photographers globally are females," said Fiona Shields, Head of Photography at The Guardian and 2024 World Press Photo Global Jury Chair.
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“70% of photography graduates are women but only 15% of professional photographers globally are females,” said Fiona Shields, Head of Photography at The Guardian and 2024 World Press Photo Global Jury Chair.
World Press Photo Exhibition 2024 in London featured award-winning photographers Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Fiona Shields and World Press 2024 winner Aletheia Casey on its ‘Women in Photography’ event on Thursday evening.
Anastasia Taylor-Lind on ‘Women in Photography’ event at the World Press Exhibition 2024.
Anastasia Taylor-Lind, 2024 World Press Photo Contest Europe Jury Chair, said that men and women have to have more confidence in female photographers to carry out projects at conflict zones. The Nat Geo Explorer said that sometimes she is no even trusted to carry equipment.
She mentioned the lack of support from managers to promote and nominate female photographers’ work, as less than 20% of entries to the World Press Photo contest were women photographers. Françoise Demulder was the first women to win a World Press Photo of the Year in 1977.
Taylor-Lind also shared her project “5km from the Front Line”, a 10 year-ongoing photographic project in Ukraine. She focuses on ‘the less obvious, but all the more devastating, consequences of the conflict’. She shows how people at the frontline of the current Ukraine-Russia war have to deal with the constant threats and daily restrictions.
Aletheia Casey, 2024 World Press Photo winner, shares how she came up with her project ‘A Lost Place’.
Aletheia Casey, 2024 World Press Photo Contest Winner and Course Leader on the Masters of Photojournalism at University of the Arts London (UAL) encouraged men at the event to ask women photographers to talk more about their projects, as she has seen a tendency on female peers under sharing their work as a result of the poor interest from their colleagues.
Aletheia Casey explained more about her winning photography project ‘A Lost Place’, featuring Australia’s wildfires.
World Press Photo of the Yea 2024, ‘Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece’ by Mohammed Salem.
The World Press Photo Exhibition 2024 in London will feature the winning pieces of the 2024 World Press Photo Contest until 27 May.
The annual exhibition showcases the best and most important photojournalism and documentary photography of the last year. Winners were announced on April 2024.
The winners were chosen by an independent jury made of 31 professionals from around the world who reviewed more than 61,062 photographs entered by 3,581 photographers from 130 countries.
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“70% of photography graduates are women but only 15% of professional photographers globally are females,” said Fiona Shields, Head of Photography at The Guardian and 2024 World Press Photo Global Jury Chair.
World Press Photo Exhibition 2024 in London featured award-winning photographers Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Fiona Shields and World Press 2024 winner Aletheia Casey on its ‘Women in Photography’ event on Thursday evening.
Anastasia Taylor-Lind on ‘Women in Photography’ event at the World Press Exhibition 2024.
Anastasia Taylor-Lind, 2024 World Press Photo Contest Europe Jury Chair, said that men and women have to have more confidence in female photographers to carry out projects at conflict zones. The Nat Geo Explorer said that sometimes she is no even trusted to carry equipment.
She mentioned the lack of support from managers to promote and nominate female photographers’ work, as less than 20% of entries to the World Press Photo contest were women photographers. Françoise Demulder was the first women to win a World Press Photo of the Year in 1977.
Taylor-Lind also shared her project “5km from the Front Line”, a 10 year-ongoing photographic project in Ukraine. She focuses on ‘the less obvious, but all the more devastating, consequences of the conflict’. She shows how people at the frontline of the current Ukraine-Russia war have to deal with the constant threats and daily restrictions.
Aletheia Casey, 2024 World Press Photo winner, shares how she came up with her project ‘A Lost Place’.
Aletheia Casey, 2024 World Press Photo Contest Winner and Course Leader on the Masters of Photojournalism at University of the Arts London (UAL) encouraged men at the event to ask women photographers to talk more about their projects, as she has seen a tendency on female peers under sharing their work as a result of the poor interest from their colleagues.
Aletheia Casey explained more about her winning photography project ‘A Lost Place’, featuring Australia’s wildfires.
World Press Photo of the Yea 2024, ‘Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece’ by Mohammed Salem.
The World Press Photo Exhibition 2024 in London will feature the winning pieces of the 2024 World Press Photo Contest until 27 May.
The annual exhibition showcases the best and most important photojournalism and documentary photography of the last year. Winners were announced on April 2024.
The winners were chosen by an independent jury made of 31 professionals from around the world who reviewed more than 61,062 photographs entered by 3,581 photographers from 130 countries.
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