the Winners of the contest of young photographers in the name of Andrey Stenin declared in Moscow. The international jury chose the best from more than five thousand works. Fought for the victory of the photojournalists from 75 countries. For the first time in the short-list includes photos of photographers from the UK, Austria, Argentina, Brazil, and Haiti.
distribution of the prizes and who will receive the main award will be announced in September, the TV channel “Russia 24”.
“Our finalists is a serious already established professionals, despite the fact that they are young, — says Oksana Oleynik, curator of the exhibition. — Our competition is for photographers from 18 to 33 years. They have a very serious and thoughtful work, philosophically meaningful problems of a very different kind. We have breaking news, we have a wonderful series of portraits. There is a very serious topic of ecology in the category “My planet”. They seriously understood and shows its absolutely unique visual language that is inherent in every photographer”.
“actually this competition is good because in addition to the diplomas, cups, exhibitions, catalogs, each category involves a prize that can be spent, for example, the creation of a new photo project,” — said Maria Plotnikova, a winner of the 2018.
the international photojournalism competition named after Andrei Stenin held annually. Reception of applications will start on 22 December — the day of birth of photographer killed while performing their professional duties.
