2014 World Press Photo Exhibition

Looking for the best photography exhibitions in London? Hosted in the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, the World Press Photo Exhibition brings together 140 winning images of an international competition, laying bare some of the most powerful and disturbing images from in the field photojournalism. From the aftermath of natural disasters and conflicts around the world to triumphant sporting successes, prepare to be amazed by the limits of the human condition in this unforgiving and at times harrowing display.
World Press Photo Exhibition 2014 winners
Highlights amongst this year’s winners include Philippe Lopez’ ‘Typhoon Survivors’ (2014); a goose-bump inducing image of the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines carrying religious images to the less-affected areas of the archipelago. Look out also for Emiliano Lasalvia’s death defying ‘Polo Fall’ (2013) and the African migrants on the shore of Djibouti City in John Stanmeyer’s ‘Signal’ (2013), raising their phones in an attempt to find signal from neighbouring Somalia and make contact with lost relatives.
British winners
This year four UK photographers have been recognised for their breath-taking photographs. In the staged portraits category don’t miss Abbie Trayler-Smith’s ‘Shannon’ (2014), the 16^th year old girl from Sheffield who chose to have a balloon inserted into her stomach for six months to help her lose weight, and Nadav Kander’s image of the star of the Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave, Chiwetel Ejiofor. Other British photographers that have received prizes include Marcus Bleasdale for his series on modern-day whalers and Julie McGuire’s image of the asylum for street dogs in Malaysia.