The World Press Photo exhibition opened yesterday at Politiken with speeches by World Press winner, Mads Nissen and director of Word Press Photo, Lars Boering.
In these months the staff from World Press Photo travels around the world to present and discuss their ideas for both the competition and for the whole World Press Photo foundation.
Lars Boering (right), director of World Press Photo, presenting the draft for the new rules in the competition. Picture by Thomas Borberg.
While in Copenhagen, the director Lars Boering had invited a selection of photographers, picture editors and teachers to debate the future of photojournalism and how World Press Photo can influence the photojournalistic media.
20 people were invited to the meeting with World Press Photo. Picture by Thomas Borberg.
Mads Greve and Søren Pagter were among the people invited for the debate, which focussed on manipulation both within the use of post production and manipulation made by wrong context and by arranging pictures.
As a part of the meeting Lars Boering presented a draft to the new rules for the World Press Photo competition, just like he presented “the state of news photography” – a research the organization has made together with David Campbell.