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Spencer Platt's image of young, well-dressed Lebanese driving a flash car through a bombed-out neighbourhood in southern Beirut (pictured), confronts you as an incongruity as startling as that of a surrealist photomontage. It shows you a part of the city razed by Israeli bombs but the rest of the image simply doesn't figure in your expectations.

The photograph won first prize in the Daily Life section for the US photojournalist. But not all of the events covered are likely to be given global press coverage. Denis Darzacq's images of Parisian street dancers apparently levitating could be an example of photographic trickery but the arresting pictures are simply the result of the skills of both subject and photographer.

What press images often do best is to highlight the human tragedy behind the headlines. Few of the photographs in this exhibition do this as affectingly as Nina Berman's portrait of a young bride and her US marine groom. Severely facially disfigured on his second tour of duty in Iraq, the groom has an unreadable expression, but the bride's is a heartbreaking picture of apprehension.

Until Sep 9, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank SE1, 10am to 11pm, free. Tel: 0871 663 2500. Tube: Waterloo

World Press Photo Exhibition 2007
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
The South Bank Centre,Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX