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  • Photographer: Hoi Kin Fung (Hong Kong), Name: An odyssey into the vanishing oases: fountains amid public housing, Category: My Planet Series, Jury Honorable Mention, Description of the project: Hong Kong is a concrete jungle, where half of the residents live in public housing estates. Fountains can usually be found in those estates. The fountain areas are meant to serve as places where residents can interact with one another. However, most of the fountains are now falling into decay or even demolished. The good old days are gone. Description of a picture:Water fountain in the Cheung Heng Estate, Tsing Yi. Still working.

    Photographer: Hoi Kin Fung (Hong Kong), Name: An odyssey into the vanishing oases: fountains amid public housing, Category: My Planet Series, Jury Honorable Mention, Description of the project: Hong Kong is a concrete jungle, where half of the residents live in public housing estates. Fountains can usually be found in those estates. The fountain areas are meant to serve as places where residents can interact with one another. However, most of the fountains are now falling into decay or even demolished. The good old days are gone. Description of a picture:Water fountain in the Cheung Heng Estate, Tsing Yi. Still working.

  • Photographer:Sameer Al-Doumy (France), Name: Escaping Conflict to Another. France, Category: Top News Single, Jury Honorable Mention, Description: A Yellow Vests demonstration around Champs-Elysées in Paris on December 1,2018. The Yellow Vests movement in France originally started as a protest against the planned fuel hikes but has morphed into a mass protest against the president's policies
  • Photographer: Francis Rousseau (France), Name: The Women of Arugam Bay, Category; Portrait, A Hero of Out Time, 1st place, single, Description: The first surfing society for local women in the history of a country ruled by a patriarchy since bygone days. In that part of the island, you will hardly see a local woman driving a tuk tuk or walking to the beach with a surfboard. In this shot I wanted to change the rules.
  • Photographer: Mushfiqul Alam (Bangladesh), Name: Tale of the tormented, Category: Portrait. A Hero of Our Time, 1st place, series, Description of the project: The project focuses on the Rohingya women victims of violence. After 9 months of the exodus, around 48,000 women are estimated to deliver babies as a result of rape. Most of these pregnant women were in fear of public shaming and judgment. Description of a picture:Badu Begum, 25, was raped by Myanmar soldiers during the ethnic cleansing in 2017. The Myanmar government never recognized Rohingyas as their citizens. Badu lost her husband, who was shot by the soldiers.
  • Photigrapher: Sergei Gapon (Belarus), Name: Tundra Cup, Category: Inspiration, 2nd place, single, Description: Children of reindeer herders play football on the snow. The FIFA World Cup was held for the first time in Russia in 2018. Football fever swept through the whole country, even Russia's frozen Arctic, which is home to half a million people who live the way their ancestors did for millennia
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As per tradition, December 22, the birthday of Rossiya Segodnya photojournalist Andrei Stenin, is the day the contest, named after him, starts accepting submissions. The contest, established by the media group in memory of their colleague in 2014, aims to promote and support young photojournalists aged between 18 and 33. Submissions will be accepted until February 29, 2020. Photo series and single photos can be submitted through the stenincontest.ru website in Russian, English and Chinese. The 2020 competition will include four categories Top News, Sport, My Planet, and Portrait. A Hero of Our Time. One single entry and one photo series can be submitted in each of the four categories.

Cash awards for the 2020 competition will be 125,000, 100,000 and 75,000 rubles for the first, second and third places in each category. The winner of the highest Stenin competition award – the Grand Prix – will receive 700,000 rubles. Apart from the financial side, the contest gives young photojournalists the opportunity to show their work at Russian and international venues – a touring exhibit of the winners has become an integral part of the project and has been shown in dozens of cities in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.

Since 2018, the New York headquarters of the main international organization for strengthening peace and security in all countries, the United Nations (UN) has been one of the exhibit venues for Stenin contest winners.

Oksana Oleinik, the curator of the photo contest and the head of the Visual Projects Service at Rossiya Segodnya, commented: “The Andrei Stenin Contest is entering a new phase in 2020. We marked the first five years in 2019, and we would like the next five, ten or more years to see the competition develop and grow dynamically. We are looking forward to even more participants next year, and more interesting works. Discovering new names in photography is an incredibly exciting and responsible task, and I’m sure the international jury will do a great job in 2020. We invite young photojournalists from around the world to participate in the 2020 contest and we wish them all good luck.”

The 2019 Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest was supported by major Russian and international media, news agencies and the photo community. Shanghai United Media Group (SUMG), the China Daily web portal, the Al Mayadeen Arab media network, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), one of the largest humanitarian organizations in the world, awarded special prizes as partners of specific categories.

 

About the contest

The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest was launched by Rossiya Segodnya under the aegis of the Russian Commission for UNESCO. Its main goal is to support young photographers and draw public attention to the challenges of modern photojournalism. This contest is a platform for young photographers; talented, empathetic and open-minded, they draw our attention to people and events around us.

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Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest

https://stenincontest.com/

December 22, 2019 to February 29, 2020

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