WORLD PRESS Photo is back to Portimão for the fourth year.The local Câmara, in conjunction with Associação Música XXI, a private organisation, is promoting the event, which opened on Friday, July 20 and was attended by Spencer Platt, the winner of WPP2007.
The exhibition is free for all visitors and is open to the public every day between 6pm and 1am until August 12 in the Zona Ribeirinha de Portimão (Riverside area).
The competition attracted a total of 78,083 photographs,
 The Visão/BES photo competition winner. The photograph was taken by Manuel de Almeida. Photo: LUSA |
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sent by 4,460 photographers from 124 countries from all over the world. The winning photo shows a group of young Lebanese in a soft top sports car in a destroyed neighbourhood of Beirut.
The photo was taken in 2006, after an Israel bombing attack. On the same day, August 16, many Palestinian people were returning to their homes, hence it was the first day of the cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Hezbollah.
The exhibition also includes the works of Portuguese photographers who entered the seventh Prémio de Jornalismo Visão/BES, a national competition also about photojournalism.
This year’s winner of the Visão/BES competition was Manuel de Almeida, a Portuguese reporter working for Lusa, the national news agency. The Portuguese winning photograph was taken in Timor and shows a United Nations soldier carrying an injured policeman. This competition, which started in 2000, is already the most important in its type in Portugal.
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