{"id":271,"date":"2013-08-23T16:05:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T16:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cameraexchangestore.co.uk\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2013-08-27T16:05:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:05:51","slug":"the-world-press-photo-exhibition-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cameraexchangestore.co.uk\/blog\/the-world-press-photo-exhibition-2013","title":{"rendered":"The World Press Photo Exhibition 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year the annual World Press Photo Exhibition took place in Holyrood, Scotland. The Scottish Parliament opened its doors for public viewing from July 30th<\/sup> until August 25th<\/sup>. This prestigious exhibition featured sensational photographs from right across the globe; in total over 100,000 photographs were shown by nearly 6,000 photographers.<\/p>\n

The exhibit featured award winning entries from the World Press Photo Contest and featured some of the most provocative and emotional images ever taken. Many of the images shown depicted challenging subjects such as war and human conflict. Paul Hansen, a Swedish photographer won the World Press Photo of the Year award for his photograph entitled, \u2018Gaza Burial\u2019. The image depicts a group of males carrying two dead children to a burial ceremony at a mosque situated on the Gaza Strip; in the background of this emotional image you can see the father of the children laying on a stretcher. To view some of the striking images that were displayed, see the article on The Scotsman<\/a>, be aware that some images may be distressing for children.<\/p>\n

Although many images seen at the exhibit depicted raw, challenging and controversial subjects, many other images captured hope, love and, the beauty of the natural world. It was due to varied subject matter that this exhibition was such a success. These powerful award-winning photographs signify exactly what role photography should play; you should feel something when you look at a photograph and as a photographer yourself you should challenge the viewer somewhat. This doesn\u2019t mean that you have to visit a war zone to take a fabulous picture, start small and gain experience taking pictures of things that you are passionate about. One day you could see your photos displayed at the World Press Photo Exhibition.<\/p>\n

The success of this fantastic exhibition could mean a lot for the British photography, as it is hugely inspirational for professional and amateur photographers.\u00a0 Of course, having a great camera will help so if you\u2019re thinking of upgrading yours, the Camera Exchange Store is a great place to exchange and sell used Canon digital cameras<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year the annual World Press Photo Exhibition took place in Holyrood, Scotland. The Scottish Parliament opened its doors for public viewing from July 30th until August 25th. This prestigious exhibition featured sensational photographs from right across the globe; in total over 100,000 photographs were shown by nearly 6,000 photographers. The exhibit featured award winning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cameraexchangestore.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cameraexchangestore.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cameraexchangestore.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cameraexchangestore.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cameraexchangestore.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cameraexchangestore.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/cameraexchangestore.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cameraexchangestore.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cameraexchangestore.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cameraexchangestore.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}