Our Place

UNESCO and the New Zealand-based company GSP Our Place-World Heritage (GSP OP-WH Ltd) are working together to produce a series of books, television programmes and a website to promote awareness of heritage sites among the broad international public. Increased awareness, knowledge and appreciation will also lead to better protection for these remarkable places, many of which are extremely fragile. GSP OP-WH Ltd and its international network of professional photographers will be included in a large databank that could be used to help promote conservation efforts and publicize the World Heritage message. The goal is to make sites and the extraordinary human stories linked to them better known to all. The project's principal financial sponsor is Panasonic of Japan which has made an important contribution to the largest-ever photographic project on World Heritage Sites.