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World Press Photo 2025 | Montreal’s Must-See Exhibition Before It’s Gone

Last call! 📸 World Press Photo 2025 is in Old Montreal until Oct 13. Discover powerful global stories in this must-see cultural exhibition.

📸 World Press Photo 2025: Montreal’s Last Chance to See the World Through a Lens

Montrealers pride themselves on culture, from jazz to murals, fashion to festivals. This fall, the city adds another jewel to its cultural crown: the World Press Photo 2025 Anniversary Exhibition. But here’s the catch, you only have 3 weeks left to experience it before it leaves town on October 13, 2025. If you haven’t gone yet, consider this your last call.

Participants at “Heavenly Bodies,” an underground drag ballroom event during Lagos Pride, celebrate the “mother of the year” winner.

Mother Moves, House Approves

🌍 A Global Storytelling Legacy

Founded in 1955, the World Press Photo Foundation is the world’s leading platform for visual journalism. Its annual contest highlights photographers who not only capture events but tell the deeper stories shaping our time.

This year’s winners bring powerful perspectives:

Lee-Ann Olwage (South Africa) — World Press Photo of the Year, for her portrait of a Malagasy girl with dementia, humanizing a rarely seen health issue.
Alessandro Cinque (Italy) — Story of the Year, documenting how mining disrupts Peru’s Indigenous communities.
Mads Nissen (Denmark) — Long-Term Project Award, chronicling Colombia’s fragile peace process.
Mohamed Salem (Palestine) — Single Image Award, for his devastating photo of a woman holding her niece’s body in Gaza.

These images, alongside category winners in Environment, Contemporary Issues, Nature, and Sports, invite Montrealers to connect global struggles to their own sense of resilience, diversity, and identity.

Workers ride towards a nickel smelting and processing plant, in Weda, Halmahera, Indonesia, amid heavy rains that continued for two days,causing flooding that impacted some 6,500 people.

The Impact of Nickel Mining on Halmahera Island.

🏛️ Montreal as a Stage

Housed in Old Montreal, the exhibition transforms a historic venue into a space of global awareness. As you walk through, the city’s own stories echo: migration, activism, cultural fusion. Montreal isn’t just hosting this show it’s in dialogue with it.

For locals, the resonance is strong: Indigenous rights echo here in Québec, climate struggles feel urgent after record-smoky summers, and the portraits of survival mirror the grit of a city that thrives in both beauty and hardship.

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Bodybuilder Tamale Safalu trains in front of his home in Kampala, Uganda.

🎨 Why It Matters

In a sea of TikToks and Instagram feeds, the World Press Photo Exhibition reasserts the importance of images that are truthful, artistic, and lasting.

For activists: it’s a rallying call.
For artists: it’s inspiration.
For Montrealers: it’s a mirror, showing how our values connect with global issues.

Every frame is a lesson in empathy, something our city, known for its cosmopolitan spirit, deeply understands.

Chinese migrants warm themselves under a cold rain after crossing the US-Mexico border, in Campo, California.

Night Crossing

🔑 Best Kept MTL’s Lens

At Best Kept MTL, we curate the city’s hidden gems: vernissages, underground shows, and cultural milestones. Supporting World Press Photo is natural for us, it’s about spotlighting the world’s best stories, framed in a way that speaks to Montreal’s artistic and cultural heartbeat.

Just as chaque monture est une rencontre at an atelier, each photo here is a meeting: between viewer and subject, art and truth, Montreal and the world. That’s why we encourage our community not to miss this rare exhibition.

Brazil's Gabriel Medina bursts out triumphantly from a large wave in the fifth heat of round three of men’s surfing, during the 2024 Olympic Games, inTeahupo’o, Tahiti, French Polynesia.

Gabriel Medina During the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

⚡ Last Call Before It’s Gone

The dates are set: August 27 – October 13, 2025. That means just three weeks remain to see the stories shaping our world before they move on.

👉 Think of it like a once-in-a-lifetime show: miss it now, and you’ll be waiting years for the chance to witness this caliber of global visual journalism in Montreal again.

So book a ticket, bring a friend, and immerse yourself in these unforgettable frames. Montreal has always been a city of culture, let’s show up for the storytellers who make history visible.

Tūhoe people perform a haka, a traditional dance and welcome (also sometimes a chant of challenge) in Tāneatua, New Zealand, as government officials arrive for the 2014 Tūhoe-Crown Settlement Day ceremony,where the government formally apologized for historical injustices.

Te Urewera – The Living Ancestor of Tūhoe People.

📅 Quick Info

What: World Press Photo 2025 Anniversary Exhibition
Where: Old Montreal
When: Until October 13, 2025
Why go: To experience the world’s best visual storytelling before it moves on.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado greets supporters atop a vehicle during a campaign rally for the opposition presidential candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, in Mérida, Venezuela.

The Last Hope.

✨ Best Kept MTL is proud to champion this global exhibition, because some stories can’t wait and neither can you.

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