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Immigrants still take front and center stage of World Press Photo exhibition tour
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Looking around: Visitors take a look at photos during the 2019 World Press Photo Exhibition at Dutch cultural center Erasmus Huis in Jakarta.
(Dutch Embassy in Indonesia/-)
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igration and refugee issues have once again become the main focus of the 2019 World Press Photo Exhibition tour, which takes place in over 100 cities, including Jakarta.
Organized by the World Press Foundation, the exhibition tour features 140 photographs from 25 photographers worldwide, which are the nominees and winners of the 62nd annual World Press Photo Contest showcasing the best visual journalism over the last year.
With 4,738 photos received by 78,801 photographers worldwide, judging took place from Jan. 12 to 31, before the official nominees were announced on Feb. 20.
The photos were judged on by an independent jury consisting of 17 professional photographers with diverse backgrounds, each of them having specific criteria to determine the winners in each category.
On April 11, the winners of the photo contest were announced during the awards show in Amsterdam, before kicking off with an exhibition at the World Press Photo Festival in the respective country and finally a worldwide tour.
The exhibition in Jakarta is taking place at the Dutch cultural center Erasmus Huis in Rasuna Said until Sept. 26.
The most prominent piece in the Erasmus Huis’ exhibition is last year’s World Press Photo of the Year and World Press Photo Story of the Year winners, respectively Crying Girl on the Border by John Moore and The Migrant Caravan by Pieter Ten Hoopen. Both of them were also nominees in the Spot News category.
