{"id":5862,"date":"2023-04-20T11:31:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T09:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/?p=5862"},"modified":"2023-05-03T15:34:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T13:34:18","slug":"mohamed-mahdy-is-the-global-winner-of-world-press-photo-2023-open-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/2023\/04\/20\/mohamed-mahdy-is-the-global-winner-of-world-press-photo-2023-open-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Mahdy is the Global winner of World Press Photo 2023, Open Format"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the 29th of March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohammedmahdy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mohamed Mahdy<\/a> was announced as the winner of World Press Photo 2023 in the Africa region. Mohamed Mahdy won in the Open Category with his interactive project &#8220;Here, The Doors Don&#8217;t Know Me&#8221;. Today, it was announced that he is also the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpressphoto.org\/collection\/photo-contest\/2023\/Mohamed-Mahdy-OPFA\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Global winner<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mahdy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5863\"\/><figcaption><em>Collage with images from Mohamed Mahdy&#8217;s interactive prize winning project &#8220;Here, The Doors Don&#8217;t Know Me&#8221;.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2015, in collaboration with local residents, Mohamed Mahdy has documented how inhabitants are suffering from the rapid urban development in Alexandria, Egypt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the chapters was added to the photo project while Mohamed Mahdy was a student at DMJX in the spring and autumn terms, 2022. Here he was part of the international photojournalism programme at DMJX in Aarhus on a scholarship from the ECCA Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award ceremony and the opening of the World Press Photo exhibition will be held in Amsterdam on the 12th of May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read a previous article about Mohamed Mahdy and his project <a href=\"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/2023\/03\/29\/mohamed-mahdy-wins-prize-at-world-press-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DMJX and World Press Photo<\/strong><br>Four DMJX students have won prizes at the World Press Photo since 2002.<br>2002 \u2013 Erik Refner, World Press Photo<br>2012 \u2013 L\u00e6rke Posselt, 1st prize, Portraits<br>2013 \u2013 Marie Hald, 2nd prize, Observed Portraits<br>2018 \u2013 Heba Khamis, 1st prize, Contemporary Issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 29th of March, Mohamed Mahdy was announced as the winner of World Press Photo 2023 in the Africa region. Mohamed Mahdy won in the Open Category with his interactive project &#8220;Here, The Doors Don&#8217;t Know Me&#8221;. Today, it was announced that he is also the Global winner. Since<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5864,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions\/5864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}