World Press Photo 2002
8 July 2002
A collection of the world's best press photographs - including one by South African Jodi Bieber - is on show at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg from 7 to 31 August.
World Press Photo, now in its 45th year, attracts thousands of entries annually from leading photojournalists, and is regarded as the most prominent international press photography competition.
The exhibition, which travels to over 70 venues around the world, presents an overview of the year's news as published in newspapers and magazines internationally, as well as unpublished material shown for the first time.
Alongside headline news, current affairs and daily life, diverse aspects of photojournalism are reflected in the categories Sports, The Arts, and Science and Technology.
Jodi Bieber's Young Pakistani Girl won first prize in the Portraits Singles category. (Source: World Press Photo)
This year's competition attracted 4 171 photographers from 123 countries submitting 49 235 entries.
World Press Photo of the year went to Danish photographer Erik Refner of the daily Berlingske Tidende for his black and white picture of the body of a one-year-old boy being washed and wrapped in a white cloth in preparation for his funeral in a refugee camp in Pakistan. The child's family, originally from North Afghanistan, had sought refuge from the political situation and the consequences of the drought in their country.
South African Jodi Bieber, of the Network Photographers for Learning for Life, won first prize in the Portraits Singles category for her entry entitled Young Pakistani Girl.
Bieber was also a prize-winner in last year's competition. Her Illegal Immigrants in South Africa won first prize in the Daily Life Stories category, while her picture
Ebola Crisis in Uganda, November won third prize in the People in the News Stories category.
South African Herbert Mabuza, photographer and picture editor at the country's biggest weekly newspaper, the Sunday Times, was a member of this year's panel of judges.
Standard Bank sponsors the World Press Photo tour in South Africa. The exhibition opened at the Good Hope Gallery in the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town in July before moving to Johannesburg.
SouthAfrica.info reporter. Source: Standard Bank Gallery, World Press Photo
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