Hungary bans children from visiting exhibition over display of LGBTQ+ images

Jonathan Fointaine’s The Nomad’s Final Journey, which was awarded with an honourable mention by the World Press Photo jury, at the opening of the World Press Photo 2023 exhibition at the Hungarian National Museum, in Budapest (Szigetvary Zsolt/MTI/AP)

Under-18s have been banned from visiting this year’s World Press Photo exhibition in Budapest after Hungary’s right-wing populist government said some of the images violate a contentious law restricting LGBTQ+ content.

The global exhibition, on display in Hungary’s National Museum, gets more than four million visitors from around the world every year.