You’re Invited: World Press Photo 12 at Toronto’s Brookfield Place Oct.3 – 24, 2012

This video presents “WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2012”:

• “Video containing the winning single photographs (in all categories) at this years World Press Photo edition 2012

• At the end there is a list of the winners for “stories” in all the same categories, too many to include in this short clip

• The winners were announced on the 10th of February 2012 and all photographs were published on the official website early that morning (www.worldpressphoto.org)”

Now, Canadians can catch the following FREE traveling exhibition of prize-winning photos:

World Press Photo 12

Free Admission

October 3 – 24, 2012

Allen Lambert Galleria • Brookfield Place
181 Bay Street, Toronto
Ontario, Canada

Open 9 am – 9 pm daily
(including Sundays and Thanksgiving)
Closes 6 pm October 24

Brookfield Place proudly presents World Press Photo 12:

• World Press Photo 12 is a traveling exhibition of prize-winning entries assembled by World Press Photo, organizers of the world’s largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest

• Please click here to preview some of the featured photos in this year’s exhibit

• Wheelchair Accessible

• School Groups are welcome
  • Please email info@worldpressphotobrookfieldplace.com for details

• To learn more about World Press Photo, visit worldpressphoto.org

• To download the World Press Photo 12 iPad App, visit the iTunes store

Toronto Exhibition Contact: info@worldpressphotobrookfieldplace.com

The World Press Photo exhibition tour of prize-winning photographs is the most popular traveling photo event in the world:

• Every year following the World Press Photo Contest, the winning images go on tour
  • In April, the exhibition is officially opened in Amsterdam and can be seen at venues around the globe until March of the next year
  • The tour program takes in approximately 100 cities in 45 countries and is still expanding
• “The exhibition is a showcase for creativity in photojournalism and a platform for developments in the profession, part of World Press Photo’s aim of encouraging and stimulating the work of press photographers around the world
• The show also attracts a broader public and, because of the wide-ranging focus of the contest, forms an eyewitness record of world events from the previous year”
• Please click here to view the locations and dates of the World Press Photo 12’s global tour

World Press Photo receives support from the Dutch Postcode Lottery and is sponsored worldwide by Canon.

Enjoy!