A dynamic program of talks, workshops, and educational activities around What Have We Done?
World Press Photo and partnering organizations present pop-up festivals to accompany our 70-year anniversary exhibition.
Join us as we mark World Press Photo’s 70th anniversary with the exhibition What Have We Done? Unpacking Seven Decades of World Press Photo curated by Cristina de Middel. Featuring over 100 images spanning 70 years, the exhibition invites us to question how images shape meaning and how we might interpret them.
Running alongside the exhibition presented in Groningen, Johannesburg, and Dhaka, the pop-up festivals, co-created with our regional partners in South Africa and Bangladesh, bring this exploration to life with a public program designed to elevate visual literacy, engage with the exhibition’s themes, and spark dialogue and reflection.
Bringing together local photographers, critical thinkers, and audiences, the festivals will invite you to learn how photographic images communicate and influence understanding, explore how they address assumptions, biases, and narrative frameworks, and engage in conversations about how visual storytelling shapes society.
Highlights of the festivals include:
Talks and panels with visual thinkers and creators, exploring how archives inform our present and future.
Workshops to help us make meaning and create understanding through what we see in a picture.
Interactive sessions exploring how archives are selected, described, curated, and contextualized.
We’re honored to welcome a dynamic lineup of industry experts, selected with our partners, the Market Photo Workshop in South Africa, and Drik Picture Library in Bangladesh, each bringing unique perspectives and experience. Key to the program is the inclusion of local perspectives whose participation will bridge archival insight with contemporary challenges—creating a space for reflection, connection, and critical engagement.
Confirmed speakers include: Joumana El Zein Khoury, executive director of World Press Photo; Kadir van Lohuizen, photographer; Saskia Asser, curator, author, and researcher; and Tina Farifteh, photographer and filmmaker.
Program co-developed with the Market Photo Workshop. Confirmed speakers include acclaimed photographers Cedric Nunn, Jodi Bieber, Neo Ntsoma, Sethembiso Zulu, and visual artist Zaneli Muholi.
