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“Do you want to go to World Press Photo and feel bad about everything?” This year’s World Press Photo exhibit, on display in Amsterdam until July 22, is no exception to the rule that no news is good news.

“My project is like visual research into women on the shelf, arranged marriage, and the irrelationship—the forced intimacy—of it all. I want viewers to experience those forced relationships.”—Yingguang Guo, in our interview about her photo series The Bliss of Conformity.

“This group of women have all lived as men… Everything is in the wrong place, and everything is in the wrong size and shape, and it sucks to try to be a woman when you’ve had like 60 years of testosterone going through your veins.”—Jessica Dimmock, in our interview about her documentary The Convention.

“Because it was about a state of mind, I knew that it was something that was going to have me throwing myself against the limits of representation. Translating emotionality and personal experiences into a picture is always going to be hard. “—Katrin Koenning, in our interview about her photography.

“This is the tragedy of wanting to make art out of your own life, or wanting to make your own life out of your art – there is no way out.”—Antoine d’Agata, in our interview about his life and photography.

“It’s very difficult to be free. For society, a free person is not good because a free person has doubts, a free person has questions – very important questions – and these very important questions necessitate time, and after this, he will act.”—Pierre Liebaert, in our interview about his photo series Free Now.