Meet the awarded photographers and hear the stories behind the 2025 World Press Photo Contest’s winning projects. Throughout the day, the 2025 Contest winners, who come from 29 different countries, from Portugal to Myanmar, Haiti to New Zealand, and Palestine to Colombia, will each speak about their work presented in the Exhibition and engage in conversation with the audience.
On the main stage, we will explore the past, looking into the World Press Photo archive and its 70-year history, alongside considering iconic images and tropes, focusing on their impact on visual literacy. We will also reflect on contemporary collaborative practices, foregrounding narratives from underrepresented communities, and the work of media in communicating current events.
In addition, we invite you to join an interactive session exploring truth and accuracy, reflecting on the World Press Photo archive.
We hope you’ll join us for this thought-provoking and inspiring day, putting a spotlight on the stories that matter.
Interactive sessions
Since 1955, World Press Photo has been building an archive of photos, publications, posters, educational materials, and much more. Join us for an interactive workshop exploring how archives are selected, described, curated, and contextualised. We will look back over 70 years of the World Press Photo Contest through the stories that the archive tells us, and read between the lines to consider the voices that are missing.
14.00 - 14.30 and 16.30 - 17.00
Framing the Facts: Truth and Accuracy in Visual Storytelling
With Yatou Sallah and Saba Askary
Explore the balance between truth, objectivity, accuracy, and personal perspectives in this interactive session. Be part of the conversation as we examine the nuances that make photojournalism both a creative and truth-seeking practice, and break down the editorial, research, and fact-checking processes that shape how visual narratives are constructed and made credible.
Main stage
14.30 - 15.00
Photographs are not Passive Reflections of Reality
With Dr Lauren Walsh
Dr Lauren Walsh looks back through some of the visual tropes that have dominated the World Press Photo archive as well as the broader collective understanding of history. What is a visual trope? Why and how does this question matter to us? In this talk, Walsh addresses the role photographs play in shaping our understanding of the world.
15.00 - 15.30
Authorship in Question: World Press Photo Investigation Update
With Chris Osieck and Joumana El Zein Khoury
The World Press Photo of the Year in 1973 was awarded to AP News photographer Nick Út for the photograph ‘Terror of War,’ popularly known as the ‘Napalm girl.’ New research by The VII Foundation revealed in their January 2025 documentary, ‘The Stringer’, asserted that Nick Út is not the author of this iconic photograph. This prompted deep reflection at World Press Photo and a subsequent investigation from January to May 2025. The details of the months-long investigation, as well as World Press Photo’s position, will be presented during this talk.
15.30 - 16.00
Inside and Out. On intuition and research.
With Fabiola Ferrero
In this talk, photographer Fabiola Ferrero explores how her photographic practice connects her inner world and personal history with global phenomena through intuition and research. In the context of our contemporary fast-changing media environment, she questions the function of image-making and asks how photographers can develop meaningful practices rooted in their personal experiences.
16.00 - 16.30
Anchor in the Landscape
With Adam Broomberg
The olive tree is a totem of Palestinian identity, culture, and resistance. It supports the livelihoods of more than 100,000 Palestinian families, is a centre of traditions and identities, and has long been a target of destruction and theft. Since 1967, 800,000 Palestinian olive trees have been destroyed by Israeli authorities and settlers. Over eighteen months, artists Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez travelled in the Occupied Territories of Palestine and photographed these trees, many of which are thousands of years old. Anchor in the Landscape brings together their studied, absorbing portraits, which act as fixed points in a historic and transforming landscape that is constantly disputed, altered, and increasingly destroyed. Each portrait bears witness to the presence and resilience of the Palestinian people and their relationship with the land. Adam Broomberg will talk about the potential of photography to reach people in an increasingly polarised and tribalised political and ideological landscape.
Book signings
17.00 - 18.00
Yearbook signings
The 2025 Contest awarded photographers will be signing copies of the World Press Photo Yearbook 2025, available to purchase at De Nieuwe Kerk shop.
Portfolio reviews
11.00 - 14.00
Portfolio reviews in collaboration with Fujifilm
Throughout the day, there will be portfolio reviews in collaboration with Fujifilm in the Eggertzaal, De Nieuwe Kerk, by invitation only.
Fujifilm Touch and Try Station
11.00 - 18.00
Explore, test, and get expert tips on Fujifilm’s latest cameras
Fujifilm ‘touch and try’ zone will showcase the current product line-up and be an area for photographers of all levels to explore the cameras in detail. An expert from Fujifilm will be on hand to answer your questions and give you tips.
Event information
Location
Dam Square
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Opening hours
Saturday 17 May 2025
10.30 - 18.00
Tickets
Adult and Youth (12 - 17 years): €19.50
Group rate (15 people or more): €17.50
Student/ CJP: €13.50
0 - 11 years; Stadspas; Museumcard; VriendenLoterij VIP-card; Iamsterdam City Card; GoCity; Members De Nieuwe Kerk; ICOM: Free
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