World Press Photo in the face of the digital revolution. Competition for the ‚quick eye’ or slow construction of multimodal narratives?

The article is an attempt to answer the questions: why and how, within the framework of World Press Photo, the current thinking about press photography, treated by the author as an important, effective and independent medium of social influence, is being re-evaluated. The aim of the article is to draw attention to the changes taking place in the World Press Photo competition, which, according to the author, are the result of the digital revolution taking place in the mediasphere. The author sees a change in the approach of the organisers and participants of the competition to the creation and presentation of photographic works. As it seems, the previous paradigm of the ‘quick eye’ is increasingly being replaced by a new, narrative way of depicting reality.