The jury of the photo contest named Andrei Stenin will announce the winners on June 3
The authoritative jury of the international competition of photojournalism behalf of Andrei Stenin, who died in South-Eastern Ukraine in the past year, will announce the names of the best young photojournalists in the ceremony of awarding the winners, which will be held June 3 at the site of the international multimedia press center MIA " Russia today ".
the competition, organized by MIA "Russia today", under the auspices of the Russian national Commission for UNESCO, has become the largest platform of fotomodele young photographers from all over the world, bringing together commissioners 4 continents from 54 countries and gathered about 5 thousand works.
the competition was held in 2 stages - placing contestants on and valaisiana jury, in 4 main categories: "Top stories ", " Problems ", " Sports ", " Daily life "." The Grand Prix will award the brightest work of the total number filed. The prize Fund will be 50, 35 and 25 thousand Rubles. for the first, second and third place, five hundred thousand Rubles. holder will receive the " Grand Prix ". The aim of the project is to attract public attention to the problems of photojournalism and support young photographers. The competition was open to young citizens from 18 to 33 years.
the jury consisting of leading photo - and art-makers of Russia and the world. Among them, for example, the Founder and Director of the School of visual arts Natalia Udartseva, visual Director of the information portal "Such Cases are" non-profit Foundation "necessary Assistance" Andrey Polikanov, co-founder and curator of the festival FotoIstanbul Attila Durak, chief editor of the photography Department Reuters in Russia and CIS Gregory Ducor. The jury was headed by the famous American photographer, winner of the Guggenheim Foundation Jason Eskenazi.
"The entries that we received, very strong. This is a wonderful work, with good photographic vision, with a good understanding of the Problem. The match seemed extremely interesting, and with his help, we bring into orbit photojournalism thirty very talented and very creative names of photographers from many countries in the world, "explained the results of the contest Director of the joint Directorate of photo information MIA "Russia today" Alexander Stoll.
lost in the performance of editorial tasks at the beginning of August 2014 in the vicinity of the town of Snizhne in the Donetsk region, where the Ukrainian Military conducted a special operation against militias. General Director of MIA "Russia today" Dmitry Kiselev on September 3 announced the capture of data of the RF IC, indicating that the journalist died as a result of the shelling of the convoy of the Ukrainian military. The photographer was buried on 5 September at the cemetery Troekurov. The head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed an order on awarding of Andrei Stenin a Courage award for heroism in the performance of professional duty.
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