With World Press Photo 2024, WestLicht is bringing the most important showcase of international press photography to Vienna for the 23rd time.

The World Press Photo exhibition brings together the world’s best works in the field of photojournalism. In times that may seem confusing, it is the images captured by press photographers, often taken at the risk of their lives, that provide orientation. They connect us with the world, make abstract news understandable, and show what is.

The approximately 120 awarded photos were selected by international expert juries from a total of 60,000 submissions by over 4,000 photographers from 130 countries. These images convey moving stories of deprivation, despair, war, and loss, but also of resilience, courage, love, and hope as people face these challenges.

The exhibition not only reflects the dominant news of the past year but also reports on events that have received little attention in this part of the world. The war in Gaza and its aftermath, captured in the World Press Photo of the Year, and the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 are among the exhibition's themes, as are the situation in Ukraine, protests against lignite mining in Germany, and the fight against rising sea levels in the South Pacific.

WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2024 
13.09.–10.11.2024

Opening hours:
daily 11am–7pm
thursdays 11am–9pm