I love photography. You might have noticed with the number of pictures I take an put on the blog on some days.

One of my yearly highlights is the World Press Photo Award.

World Press Photo is an independent, non-profit organization from Amsterdam, that holds the world’s largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest.

A jury selects the World Press Photo of the Year and a couple of winners in other categories like news, peoples, sports, daily life or nature.

The pictures are always breathtaking, but also thought-provoking. As an award for photo journalism, some works are not easy to look at, and ask some tough questions.

I was bummed to see that I would miss the exhibition, that travels the world, in Istanbul, and in Montreal, and that it had visited numerous cities that were on my itinerary like Osaka, Christchurch, Sydney, Tokio, Auckland…

But: when I browsed through the local edition of Time Out Magazine, I found out I just caught the last days of the exhibition in Mexico City!

Located in the beautiful courtyard of the Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City’s centro historico, the exhibition once again made my day.

The political/news part is sometimes hard to look at, and makes you want to sigh and run away from the world and the state that it’s in.

But you can only admire the photographers and journalists who go and try to report form those crisis zones, bringing us the stories, and try to open our eyes to the world we live in. Some losing their lives in the process.

The 2014 winner, by John Stanmeyer, depicts African migrants on the shore of Djibouti City at night, raising their phones in an attempt to catch an inexpensive signal from neighboring Somalia—a tenuous link to relatives abroad.