Fujifilm to sponsor World Press Photo contest, provide GFX prize packages: Digital Photography Review – digitalcameras.ie

“Habibi” – 2021 World Press Picture Story of the Yr Picture: Antonio Faccilongo/World Press Picture

Fujifilm has signed on to sponsor the World Press Picture (WPP) annual awards. The corporate says it should assist workshops, printing companies, and supply Fujifilm GFX100 II mirrorless medium format digital camera kits as prizes. Recipients of World Press Picture of the Yr, World Press Picture Story of the Yr, World Press Picture Lengthy-Time period Undertaking Award, and World Press Picture Open Format Award will every take house a prize bundle.

The WPP awards rank among the many most prestigious accolades in photojournalism and documentary circles. Successful a high prize earns a spot in a touring exhibition, inclusion in an annual guide and a pleasant resume line that may assist open doorways to casual portfolio evaluations with high editors. This 12 months, winners of 4 world classes may even take house gear from Fujifilm.

WPP acquired over 60,000 entries; regional winners shall be introduced on April 3, 2024, with the worldwide winners announcement on April 18, 2024.

“We’re more than happy to announce this strategic partnership with Fujifilm,” mentioned Joumana El Zein Khoury, Government Director of World Press Picture Basis, in a written assertion. “This strategic partnership will assist us attain extra individuals, enhance our exhibitions, and straight assist the information and documentary pictures neighborhood.”

“Straight Voice” – 2020 World Press Picture of the Yr Picture: Yasuyoshi Chiba/World Press Picture

Past the GFX100 II digital camera prize packages (consisting of two lenses and the physique), Fujifilm may even sponsor ten workshops in cities worldwide in 2024, with extra within the following years. As of press time, scant particulars on the scope of those workshops or who’s eligible to attend have been shared, and solely 4 nations have been listed for the place workshops will happen: Australia, Netherlands (WPP’s house base), Germany and Mexico. A touring WPP exhibition is deliberate in additional than 80 cities worldwide, beginning in Amsterdam on April 19, 2024.

“We’re excited to ascertain this strategic partnership, enabling us to contribute to the expansion of reliable storytelling and world communication by the ability of pictures,” mentioned Masato Yamamoto, Fujifim’s Director, Government Vice President and Common Supervisor of Imaging Options Division in a press launch. “By this partnership with the World Press Picture Basis, we assist the inventive people concerned within the dynamic subject of pictures.”

A touring exhibition of successful photos will start in Amsterdam on April 19, 2024. Picture: Frank van Beek/ANP/World Press Picture

The 2 organizations have gone out of their method to keep away from calling this a sponsorship and have leaned into calling it a ‘strategic partnership.’ The awards have a protracted pedigree as a platform for journalistic work, not with out their justifiable share of controversy through the years, which is probably going the rationale for the cautious selection of language used.