World Press Photo Exhibition, On Until 25 October

  • 17 Sep 2015 4:36 AM
World Press Photo Exhibition, On Until 25 October
The 58th World Press Photo contest winners were selected from 97,912 photos shot by 5,692 photographers from 131 different countries. This visiting exhibition makes 100 stops every year, making the World Press Photo tour of prize-winning pics the most popular traveling photo event in the world. So it's well worth catching while in Budapest.

Museum of Ethnography
Address: 1055 Budapest, Kossuth Lajos tér 12.
Tel: +36 1 473 2410

Open:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday: 10:00-18:00
Friday, Sunday: 10:00-20:00
Monday: CLOSED



Pictured above: Rescue Operation by Massimo Sestini, General News, second prize singles

"Refugees crowd on board a boat some 25 kilometers from the Libyan coast, prior to being rescued by an Italian naval frigate working as part of Operation Mare Nostrum (OMN).

The search-and-rescue operation was put in place by the Italian government, in response to the drowning of hundreds of migrants off the island of Lampedusa at the end of 2013.

The numbers of people risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea rose sharply in 2014, as a result of conflicts or persecution in Syria, the Horn of Africa, and other sub-Saharan countries.

OMN involved the Italian Red Cross, Save the Children, and other NGOs in an effort not only to rescue lives, but to provide medical help, counseling, and cultural support. Naval officers were also empowered to arrest human traffickers and seize their ships.

In its one year of operation, OMN brought 330 smugglers to justice, and saved more than 150,000 people, at least a quarter of which were refugees from Syria. The operation was disbanded in October, and replaced by Triton, an operation conducted by the EU border agency Frontex, focusing more on surveillance than rescue."

Source and more info:
www.worldpressphoto.org/exhibitions/2015-exhibition/budapest

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