World Press Photo expo at Erasmus

JAKARTA (JP): The best photos taken by journalists from around the world will be on display at Erasmus Huis, on Jl. Rasuna Said, Kuningan, South Jakarta, for two weeks.

Writer Seno Gumira Adjidarma is scheduled to open the exhibition, which will feature winners and runners-up in the World Press Photo 2001 contest, on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

For this year's contest, 42,321 pictures were submitted by 3,938 photographers from 121 countries. All entries were judged in Amsterdam by an internationally recognized jury from the field of press photography.

World Press Photo is an independent, non-profit organization founded in the Netherlands in 1955.

The same exhibition will be on display in Yogyakarta from Oct.11 to Oct. 19.