Press Release: Danish Software Platform Selected for World Press Photo 2007
Since 1955, the World Press Photo Foundation of Holland has held an annual competition to select the yearâ™s best press photos. It is a major international event in its field with submissions from 4,448 photographers from 122 countries in 2006.
Until now, participants have had to send their submissions for the contest and subsequent exhibitions either on CD or as actual paper copies. But beginning with World Press Photo 2007, photographers can now upload their submissions via the Internet. For upload, storage and display of the many thousands of photos, the foundation chose the Danish software program, eRez 4.0, developed by YaWah.com of Aarhus, Denmark.
Michiel Munneke, managing director of World Press Photo, explains, "The World Press Photo competition is open to every single professional photojournalist from around the globe. We consider an investment in a web application an important innovation to give potential participants an additional way of submitting. Together with The Imaging Backbone, a web interface has been designed. Jointly, we have carefully chosen the eRez server developed by YaWah because of its robust and open architecture. We are extremely grateful that YaWah supports our competition with the latest technology!"
YaWah.com launched the most recent 4.0 version of the eRez imaging server in October, 2006 with a long list of groundbreaking innovations. Imaging solutions from YaWah.com are available around the world. In the Netherlands, distribution and service of Yawah products are handled by The Imaging Backbone, suppliers of the eRez 4.0 solution for World Press Photo.
Yawah.com CEO and chief software developer Kristian Ottosen elaborates, "We are proud to once again receive international recognition of our software. This event is of particular interest to us, as it gives thousands of photojournalists first-hand experience of our solutions and of the many possibilities that they offer. The reliable and open architecture of eRez 4.0 was the deciding factor for World Press Photo, because stability and ease of use are crucial in the uploading and handling of so many images by thousands of users with very different levels of technical insight."
Once the many thousands of images are safely stored on servers with eRez software, it is possible to zoom in and out of each image online. Colour management of the many photos is also handled by eRez 4.0.
The World Press Photo 2006 exhibition can be viewed in locations all over the world until March 2007.
About Yawah
Danish-based Yawah has rapidly become a global developer and supplier of crossmedia image server solutions. Building on over 30 years of accumulated experience, YaWah has a portfolio of clients in all fields that employ or work with images.
2006 World Press Photo Contest
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