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Galway Advertiser

July 1 2004

World Press Photo exhibition opens in Eyre Square Centre
BY DECLAN VARLEY The World Press Photo 2004 Exhibition, which is open to the public in the Eyre Square Centre from Sunday July 18, was officially opened this week by Mayor Catherine Connolly. This traveling exhibition, unique in its kind and exclusive in Ireland to the Eyre Square Centre Galway, with the support of The Irish Times, is the result of a worldwide annual contest on press photography. The annual exhibition is shown each year at about 80 venues in 40 countries all over the world, subject to the condition that all prizewinning entries are exhibited without any form of censorship. This year's exhibition contains approximately 200 photographs. The exhibition not only shows the best in press photography in the past year, it can also be seen as a record of the world's historic highlights of 2003. World Press Photo aims to increase public interest in press photography and to promote the free flow of information worldwide. The fact that hundreds of thousands of visitors around the globe will view the exhibition bears out the power of the photograph to transcend cultural and linguistic frontiers. Each year, an independent international jury judges the entries (in ten different categories), submitted by photojournalists, agencies, newspapers and magazines from all corners of the world. This year's competition attracted 4,176 photographers from 124 countries. winner of this, 47th annual World Press Photo Contest is a colour image of the French photographer Jean-Marc Bouju of Associated Press. The picture shows a detained Iraqi man comforting his four-yearold-son at a holding centre for prisoners of war near An Najaf, Iraq. The picture was taken on 31 March 2003. The World Press Photo 2004 Yearbook serves as an exhibition catalogue and it contains an overview of the prizewinning pictures from the ten categories distinguished i.e. Spot News, General News, People in the News, Sports Action, Sports Features, Contemporary Issues, Daily Life, Portraits, Arts and Entertainment and Nature. The yearbook is on sale at the Management Offices in the Eyre Square Centre.

At the opening of the World Press Photo exhibition at the Eyre Square Centre were (from left) Claudia Hinterseer (World Press Photo), Mayor Catherine Connolly, Sarah Spencer (Eyre Square Centre manager) and Cormac McGuckian (Douglas Newman Good Management Ltd). Photo:- Mike Shaughnessy.

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