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World Press Photo exhibit comes to Tijuana

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A Syrian father holds his dead child. A boy sits shacked in a religious school in Senegal. An infant refugee is passed through barbed wire at the Hungarian border.

Some of the most wrenching images in a new exhibit at the Tijuana Cultural Center (Cecut) involve children at risk in different parts of the world. But the pictures from the 2016 World Press Photo competition also show much beauty—in nature, as well as in the human form and spirit.

The photos are on display at Cecut’s El Cubo gallery through Aug. 4. The exhibit is made up of 155 images shot by 42 photographers from 21 countries. They touch on a broad range of themes, including wrestling in Senegal, a storm that threatens an Australian beach, pollution in China, a Connecticut couple’s struggle with cancer, the devastation of sexual assault suffered by female U.S. veterans while serving in the armed forces.

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Two of the winning photographers are from Mexico, both of whom placed in the nature category of the prestigious competition. Sergio Tapiro earned third place for his image of a volcano erupting in Colima, Mexico. Anuar Patjane won second place for his photograph of a humpback whale and her newborn calf in the Revillagigedo archipelago.

The World Press Photo competition has been organized since 1955 by the Amsterdam-based World Press Photo Foundation.

A word of warning for those wishing to see the exhibit: the Spanish-language caption information next to the photographs is in small print, so bring reading glasses. According to the Cecut, those with Smart Phones will be able access an English-language translation through the QR App.

The general admission fee is 48 pesos, about $2.50. The exhibit is open Tuesdays through Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Cecut is located in Tijuana’s Rio Zone at Paseo de los Heroes 9350.

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