2006 World Press Photo Exhibition in Manila
Presented by the Royal Netherlands Embassy
and the Ayala Museum
May 11 to 31, 2006
Ayala Museum
Ground Floor


An excerpt from the official website:


The Royal Netherlands Embassy in Manila and the Ayala Museum present to the Philippines the 2006 World Press Photo Exhibition. The exhibit will be open to the public at the Ayala Museum in Makati City from 11 to 31 May 2006. It features the winning images of the 49th World Press Photo and is expected to travel to 85 other cities around the world. A roundtable discussion on 11 May with Ms. Evelien Kunst of the Education Department, World Press Photo Foundation, also forms part of the activity. The hosting of this exhibition places the Ayala Museum and the Philippines in the company of internationally renowned institutions and cities like the Royal Albert Hall in London, the United Nations in New York and the Centre de Cultura Contemporania in Barcelona.


…Some winning photos in the past have become iconic – a naked girl running after a napalm attack in Vietnam; a Buddhist monk who has set himself alight; a sole demonstrator in front of tanks; a veiled woman mourning after a massacre in Algeria; a girl trapped in debris after a mudslide following the eruption of a volcano in Colombia; the execution in Vietnam of a suspected Vietcong.


The latest winner of World Press Photo of the Year was an image of a child’s hand pressed against its mother’s mouth at an emergency feeding clinic in hunger-struck Niger. It was selected out of more than 80,000 images submitted by professional photographers from 122 countries. Described by the jury as having “everything – beauty, horror and despair,” the photo was taken in Tahoua, northwestern Niger, on 1 August 2005.