THE World Press Photo exhibition has arrived in Oxford ahead of its opening on Sunday.

Some 151 selected pictures from 53 prize-winning international photojournalists will be exhibited in Oxford Brookes University’s Glass Tank gallery from September 15 until October 5.

It is part of festival Photography Oxford, the city’s first international festival of Photography.

The Oxford Times, the Oxford Mail’s sister paper, is the official media partner.

World Press Photo spokesman Laurens Korteweg said: “The Glass Tank at Oxford Brookes is a perfect venue to show the many different stories of our exhibition to visitors in because of its spaciousness and natural light.

“World Press Photo is proud to be part of the Photography Oxford festival.”

The competition has been running since 1955 and the latest set of winning pictures have been touring some 100 locations around the world.

It is to make its UK debut this year in Oxford and will include the 2013 winning picture, by American photographer John Stanmeyer, of National Geographic.

He won the contemporary issues category for his picture of African migrants on the shore of Djibouti City, Djibouti.

Louis Garnade, who lives in the city and won the competition in 1956, will also appear at the Oxford Brookes gallery today to receive a copy of his winning image, specially reproduced.

From Sunday’s opening day the gallery, which is located on the ground floor of the Abercrombie extension on the Headington Campus, will open daily from 10am to 5pm.

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