While the World Press Photo 2011 exhibition in Beirut was forced to close one week early due to political controversy over Israeli photographer Amit Sha’al’s work (3rd Prize Arts and Entertainment), in Paris, the Azzedine Alaïa Gallery will display the exhibition until June 21, 2011.

On May 6 and 7, 2011, the members of the jury, the winning photographers of the 54th World Press Photo, their best friends and competitors, and some of their clients, gathered together in Amsterdam for the Awards presentation of the world’s most well known prize thanks to its itinerant exhibition.

Jodi Bieber, a young South African photographer, received on Saturday, May 7, at the Muziiekgebouw of Amsterdam, praise from HRH Prince Constantin of Holldan, a 10,000 euro check from World Press sponsor Maurice Lacroix, and the latest Canon camera for a shocking picture that ran on the cover of Time Magazine.

You can read the full account by Michel Puech in the French version of La Lettre.