Links:World Press Photo Foundation is pleased to announce its calendar of 2017 activities.

World Press Photo Foundation is pleased to announce its calendar of 2017 activities.

These are the 2017 activities, in chronological order:

The 2017 World Press Photo Contest will open for entries on 1 December 2016, be judged in mid-January 2017, with the winners announced at a press conference in Amsterdam on 13 February 2017.

The 2017 Digital Storytelling Contest - formerly known as the multimedia contest - will also open on 1 December 2016 and be judged at the same time as the photo contest, with the winners announced at the press conference in Amsterdam on 13 February 2017.

The 2017 World Press Photo Festival of Visual Journalism will be held in Amsterdam from Thursday, 20 April, through Saturday, 22 April

The 2017 Awards Ceremony for the photo and digital storytelling contests will be an invitation-only event on the night of Saturday, 22 April.

The new World Press Photo Live series of global debates will begin with an international event in May 2017.

The 2017 Joop Swart Masterclass will be held in Amsterdam in the last week of September 2017.

In October 2017 there will be a new contest for creative documentary photography.