Exhibitions
World Press Photo 2025 at the CCCB: the reality of the world through photography
144 images from 42 international photographers capturing conflicts, environmental crises and invisible human stories.
From November 7 to December 14, the CCCB is hosting the photojournalism exhibition World Press Photo 2025, the twenty-first edition of the most prestigious photojournalism exhibition in the world. The exhibition presents the winning photographs of the World Press Photo 2025 competition. The exhibition brings together 144 photographs by 42 photographers and can be visited at the CCCB for a whole month. This year, the exhibition focuses on current issues such as the international conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, Lebanon and Syria, as well as the environmental crisis.
At the CCCB, this new exhibition of World Press Photo 2025 invites us to travel through the reality of the world through photography. The exhibition brings together works that are mostly unpublished in our country, chosen not only for their visual strength but also for their ability to reflect different perspectives on current events. Each image offers a unique perspective, which becomes even richer during guided tours, where the stories and contexts behind each frame are discovered.
The exhibition brings together 42 winning photographers from around the world, grouped according to the six territories of the competition: Africa, Asia-Pacific and Oceania, Europe, North and Central America, South America, and West, Central and South Asia. The awards cover three categories: Individual Photographs, Graphic Reports and Long-Term Projects, revealing the richness and diversity of contemporary photojournalism.
The exhibition not only shows the world as it is, but also invites us to reflect, question it and connect with the human stories hidden behind each image. To inaugurate this year's edition, the CCCB was attended by Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf, winner of the World Press Photo of the Year award, the highest distinction of the competition. Elouf obtained this recognition for her report Mahmoud Ajjour, nine years old, a portrait of a boy who was severely mutilated while fleeing an Israeli attack in Gaza.
