World Press Photo Exhibition 2024 opens in Lutsk

On March 4, 2025, the World Press Photo 2024 exhibition will open at the Korsaks’ Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art in Lutsk. It will showcase the results of the annual World Press Photo contest, featuring the best examples of photojournalism and documentary photography from 2023. The event in Ukraine is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine, exhibition partner — Odesa Photo Days Festival.

Lutsk is the fourth and final city in Ukraine where the World Press Photo 2024 exhibition will be displayed live. This is the last opportunity to see 129 winning photographs from the most prestigious photojournalism competition, which has already been showcased in three Ukrainian cities: Kyiv, Odesa, and Dnipro.

This year, the winner in the “Photo of the Year” category is photographer Mohammed Salem with his image “Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece,” taken in the Gaza Strip. The global winner in the “Open Format” category is Ukrainian photographer Yuliia Kochetova with her project “War Is Personal,” which intertwines photographic images, poetry, video clips, and music, allowing the author to convey the war through her personal experience. Additionally, a series from Ukraine became this year’s European regional finalist—Johanna-Maria Fritz’s project “Kakhovka Dam: Flood in the War Zone,” a collection of photos taken during the evacuation of civilians following the flood.

In total, 129 photographs will be presented, documenting the war, protests, migration and climate crises and other significant events of 2023. Finalists were chosen from over 61,000 works submitted by 3,851 participants from 130 countries worldwide. All photos are winners of regional competitions in the categories of “Long-Term Project” and “Open Format”, as well as two special mentions.

The exhibition will run from March 4 to March 20, 2025.

Opening — March 4 at 5:00 PM.

The Korsaks’ Museum of Contemporary Art (1 Korsaka Ivana St.) is open daily: on weekdays from 12:00 PM to 8:00 PM and on weekends from 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM. Entry on the first day is free. Throughout the entire exhibition period: admission ticket – 200 UAH, discounted ticket – 100 UAH. Every Wednesday, museum entry is free.

The World Press Photo Foundation is a global platform connecting photojournalists, documentary photographers and our worldwide audiences through trustworthy storytelling. World Press Photo was founded in 1955 by a group of Dutch photographers who organized a contest to expose their work to an international audience. The World Press Photo Foundation is supported by its strategic partners, the Dutch Postcode Lottery and PwC.