World Press Photo Exhibition a picture to behold

The World Press Photo Exhibition is in its eighth year of exhibiting annual winnings in the city, with 155 works by 42 photographs showing at Casa Garden, it was announced at a press conference yesterday.
The organiser of this exhibition – Casa de Portugal (CP), supported by Macao Foundation – expressed their tight budget was one of the difficulties to be overcome in holding the exhibition.
“We include this [exhibition] in the events in our presentation of budget to the Macao Foundation every year […] Sometimes it’s a bit difficult to balance because Macao Foundation has a rule that [they do not finance] all projects,” explained a CP representative.
The representative noted that the association needed to generate part of its income from other areas such as workshops in order to balance their expenses.
Meanwhile, the World Press Photo, a non-profit organisation, seeks to develop and promote the work of visual journalists, adding its major sponsor was Canon and the Dutch Postcode Lottery Fund.
“Canon has sponsored us for almost 25 years […] They want people to see what is documented so this is their way of supporting the work of journalists […] They support us financially but not in other ways,” the Project Manager of Exhibitions of World Press Photo, Sanne Schim van der Loeff, said.
When asked the reason for choosing Macau as one of the venues to hold this exhibition, Ms. van der Loeff remarked that it due to the invitation of CP. However, she indicated that Macau is a good place to attract exhibition-goers from all areas, hoping the exhibition could attract tourists from Mainland China due to the news censorships in most parts of the country.
The World Press Photo Exhibition will start from today until October 23. Entrance to the exhibition is free.