On March 3 at “Moskva” Cinema the reception on the opening of World Press Photo
2004 Exhibition in Yerevan will be held. In this annual international competition
4,176 photojournalists of 124 countries of the world took part, presenting their
works for 2003. The results of the competition were finalized in Amsterdam,
Netherlands, on February 1-12, 2004. The winners of the competition were 62
journalists of 23 countries. The Grand Prix was awarded to the photograph by
a French photo journalist Jean-Marc Bouju (“Associated Press” news agency),
made at one of the prisoner camps in Iraq.
The exhibition has already been held in over 80 cities of the world. The Yerevan
exposition of the winning photographs of the World Press Photo is organized
by the Caucasian Media Institute and will be open from March 4 to 27.
