Exhibition

KEYSTONE presents World Press Photo 12

Exhibition in the Papiersaal, Sihlcity Zürich
3 - 28 May 2012

Monday to Sunday: 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Friday: 11 a.m.-9 p.m.
Open on Ascension Day and Pentecost

World Press Photo has staged the world's largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest for the past 50 years. The Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda has won the World Press Photo of the Year 2011. The picture shows Fatima al-Qaws cradling her son Zayed (18), who is suffering from the effects of tear gas after participating in a street demonstration, in Sanaa, Yemen, on 15 October. Aranda was working in Yemen on assignment for the New York Times.

KEYSTONE presents the winning picture and other awarded photographs in the Papiersaal in Sihlcity, Zurich, supported by the leading partners Canon and Baumann & Cie, Banquiers as well as the media partners NZZ am Sonntag, persönlich and DU.

Guided Tours

Public tours (free of charge): Sunday, 6 / 13 / 20 / 27 May, 1 p.m.
Private group tours (fee required): by appointment, via phone +41(0)44 200 13 00 or e-mail wpp@keystone.ch
Management: Nicole Aeby, Freelance Photography Consultant and Curator
Lea Truffer, Picture Editor

Side events

Lecture by Jan Grarup
8 May 2012, 7 p.m.
Jan Grarup, born 1968 in Denmark, has over the course of his twenty-year career photographed many of recent history's defining human rights and conflict issues. Grarup's work reflects his belief in photojournalism's role as an instrument of witness and memory to tell the stories of people who are rendered powerless to tell their own. Based on this idea, he created his most recent series "Hunger in the Horn of Africa". Jan Grarup, member of the photographers collective NOOR, won a World Press Photo Award three times already.

Lecture by Roger Ballen
15 May 2012, 7 p.m.
Living in South Africa, the American Roger Ballen has been shooting black and white film for nearly fifty years now. His images illuminate the depths of human nature in staged surroundings breaking with the usual visual perception. Ballens works have been shown in institutions all over the world and are part of many renowned museum collections such as Tate/ London and Museum of Modern Art/ New York. Beginning of June, the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne inaugurates a monographic exhibition with his work.

Admission Fees

Exhibition: CHF 10.-, reduced CHF 5.-
Lecture and exhibition: CHF 15.-, reduced CHF 10.-
Free of charge for children and adolescents up to 16

Catalogue

Available at the Papiersaal in English, German or French, CHF 39.-

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