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20 years of World Press Photo in Barcelona

Cristina Martín Valbuena
Years go by and it seems that nothing has changed, that everything was there and it was preferred not to look at it. The World Press Photo contest celebrates 20 years since its first exhibition in Barcelona, having attracted more than 1.65 million spectators. A chronology welcomes this year's exhibition...
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AI: Oh, oh, oh

Jordi Cabré
The initial coldness is striking. The darkness, the conceptual aesthetic line, the feeling of penetrating a complex universe, and I can't think of another adjective than cold. Not mysterious, not enigmatic, not unsettling, but cold. Metallic, squared. Raw. You immediately realize that they have chosen a very explanatory, very didactic,...
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The eyes of the world stop at the CCCB with the World Press Photo

Cristina Martín Valbuena
In an era where images are forgotten with a single story and post, further drowned in the addictive infinite scroll, the World Press Photo reasserts itself as a moment of pause to forget the mobile and remember to think about photographs, far from the fast food served by social networks....