World Press Photo is an independent non-profit organisation that was founded in the Netherlands in 1955 with the aim to support and promote press photographers' work. The photos expose to us the fate of the 700 mountain gorillas still alive today; make us face the reality that there are more than 1.5 billion TV sets in use all over the world and in some places people spend more than five hours a day watching TV; or the fact that the predecessor of bungee jumping, a tradition of the Nagol tribe, originates from a far-off island in the Pacific.
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