SSP SATURDAY - Discover World Press Photo Exhibition 2024

Please only RSVP if you can attend, a limited number of tickets have been booked.
1:30pm meet to coffee at the Library Cafe
1:50pm walk to The Library Auditorium, Lower Ground 1, Macquarie St Building (I will have your tickets ready for scanning)
2:00pm World Press Photo Exhibition talk by Anastasia Taylor-Lind
3:00pm Explore the World Press Photo Exhibition in the library's galleries.
4:00pm optional drinks/snacks at The Library Rooftop Bar Menu

To mark the opening of the 2024 World Press Photo Exhibition at the State Library of NSW, we will discover the stories behind the photo contest and the winning photographs. This is a special talk with Jury Chair for Europe, Anastasia Taylor-Lind.

Following Anastasia’s talk, we will explore the World Press Photo Exhibition in the Library’s Galleries, where we can hear more about the stories behind the photos and why they are important.
Supported by FUJIFILM Australia.

This internationally touring exhibition showcases the winners of the 2024 Contest, whose works are some of the best photojournalism and documentary photography in the world.

The awarded photographs were selected from 61,062 entries by 3,851 photographers from 130 countries. They were judged first by six regional juries, and the winners were then chosen by a global jury.

Among this year’s winners are two Australian photographers: Eddie Jim who won the Southeast Asia and Oceania, Singles category for the Fighting, Not Sinking – a moving portrait of a grandfather in Fiji resolutely holding his grandson while chest deep in a rising ocean, and Aletheia Casey who won the Southeast Asia and Oceania, Open Format for A Lost Place – a striking series of images reflecting the frustration and horror of the 2019-2020 NSW wildfires.

Anastasia Taylor-Lind is a photojournalist who has been reporting on women, war and violence for the last 20 years. She is a National Geographic Society Explorer, a TED fellow and a 2016 Harvard Nieman fellow. Anastasia has been photographing the war in Ukraine since it started in 2014. An overview of this work was exhibited at Imperial War Museums in the UK in 2022.

Her monograph Maidan: Portraits from the Black Square documented the Revolution of Dignity and was published by GOST books in 2014. Her first poetry collection One Language was published by Smith|Doorstop in 2022. Anastasia holds master's degrees in Documentary Photography and Poetry. She is the 2024 World Press Photo Contest Europe jury chair.

Cheers
June

Text and image from State Library NSW website