Exhibition by andrey stenin. State Historical Museum

BAKU, 9 Nov - Sputnik. international competition of photojournalism named after Andrei Stenin, organized by MIA "Russia Today" under the auspices of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO, revealed the main intrigue of the competition of the best young photographers of 2018.

The owner of the Grand Prix, as well as the first place in the category "My Planet. Series", was Alena Kochetkova, a 30-year-old woman from Kaluga. The victory was brought to her by the series of pictures "How I Was Sick" - a documentary account of the dramatic fight against cancer.

“For me, this is a difficult and very personal story, which, despite this, I would like to tell as many people as possible, - said Alena. - Compassion and empathy awakens in us love for our neighbors, which is never enough. At the same time, this is a word of support for those who are sick and, perhaps, feel lonely due to the inability to talk about their feelings. In addition, for me working on this series was a means not to break down internally, to accept this test and live doing what I love. "

In the nomination "My Planet. Single Work" the first place was awarded to the snapshot "Cranberry Heart" by Sergey Gapon from Belarus, taken from a drone while collecting bog berries. First Prize Winners in the Breaking News nomination were Justin Sullivan (South Africa) with the photo "Confrontation", in which a police officer holding at gunpoint three poor people hiding under a table, and Luis Tato (Spain) with the photo series "Post-Election Riots in Kenya."

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Photographer Younes Hani Somi Soflai, who took second place in the Breaking News Series, and was awarded a special prize by the International Committee of the Red Cross at the awards ceremony for the winners of the IV Andrey Stenin International Photojournalism Competition in Moscow
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The first place in the Sport nomination was awarded to Taysir Mahdi from Iraq for the photo "Desire to Live", which captures a young footballer with an amputated leg in attack, and Andrea Alai from Italy for the Ultras photo series about the typhusi of the Albenga Calcio team from a small Ligurian town ... In the nomination "Portrait. A Hero of Our Time" the victory was awarded to the single photo of the little Nenets nomad "Flower" and the photo series "Gemini" by Shiva Khademi (Iran), made in Yamal by Oded Wagenstein (Israel).

The partners of the competition were one of the largest humanitarian organizations in the world - the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as well as the United Shanghai Media Group (OSHMG) and the All-Arab news holding Al-Mayadin TV.

Special prizes of the International Committee of the Red Cross "For humanitarian photography" this year were awarded to two Iranian masters. Omid Wahabzadeh was awarded in the Single Photo category for his "Terrorist Attack in Tehran" photograph, in which a two-year-old boy is lifted out the window of the parliament building after the terrorist attack in Tehran in June 2017. In the "Series" nomination, Younes Hani Somi Soflai was awarded for the photo reportage "... And life goes on" about the everyday life of those affected by last year's earthquake in the Kermanshah province, in which almost 600 people died and more than 30,000 houses were destroyed.

A special prize from the United Shanghai Media Group (OSHMG) and Al-Mayadin TV was awarded to the "Desire to Live" photograph of Iraqi Taisir Mahdi, which won the Sport nomination.

"Today is an important day for us. Every year in autumn we remember our friend and photojournalist" Russia Today "Andrey Stenin, who died while doing an editorial assignment in southeastern Ukraine. We named a contest for young photographers after Andrey and in his memory. United by the name of Stenin, young reporters from all over the world talk about what worries them, referring to Andrei's works as a kind of tuning fork of truth. In the center of each work exhibited here is the story of a person, personality, country, "stressed general manager MIA "Russia Today" Dmitry Kiselev.

After the award ceremony, an exhibition of the laureates' works was opened at the Exhibition Complex of the State Historical Museum, which will work for everyone from November 9 to 30. The entrance to the exhibition is free.

25 young photographers from 14 countries of the world, including Russia, Iraq, Iran, Spain, Italy, Belarus, Israel, South Africa and others, competed for the right to become the owner of the Grand Prix of the competition in 2018. The exhibition showcases about 200 works by the best young photojournalists, who incorporate iconic images of the surrounding reality - from the biblical beauty of the limestone mines of Upper Egypt to the clip editing of post-election events in Kenya in the fall of 2017; from the Arctic ethnicity of the Nenets nomads to the red-hot images of sports battles on the tennis courts of Roland Garros-2017.

The exhibition was previewed at the United Nations headquarters in New York on November 2, the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. It was attended by UN Deputy Secretary General for Communications and Public Information Alison Smale, Russia's Permanent Representative to the Community of Nations Vasily Nebenzya, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Russia Today MIA Andrei Blagodyrenko. After Moscow, the exhibition will have a tour of the exhibition areas in Russia and the world.

The Andrei Stenin International Photojournalism Competition, organized by the Rossiya Segodnya International News Agency under the auspices of the RF Commission for UNESCO, aims to support young photographers and draw public attention to the tasks of modern photojournalism. This is a platform for young photographers - talented, sensitive and open to everything new, where they draw our attention to people and events near us.

In 2018, the jury of the competition included representatives of leading international news agencies - AFP (France), Anadolu Ajansi (Turkey), Notimex (Mexico), as well as world-renowned photographers and photo editors. The jury was headed by Ahmet Sel, head of the photo service of the Anadolu Ajansi Agency (Turkey).

The results of the only one in Russia international photography competition for young journalists. Andrey Stenin. The 2016 Grand Prix was won by a young Italian photographer Danilo García Di Meo with a series of photographs “Letizia, the Story of an Invisible Life” about a completely paralyzed girl, and other promising young photographers from all over the world were also awarded. The works presented at the exhibition are the standard of modern photojournalism, and it is a must-see for novice professionals.

Amateurs should also go to the exhibition to see unique shots: a terrible photo chronicle of Vadim Braidov from Ufa about life and death in Donbass; a series of photographs of damaged, crumpled and torn documents of migrants found near the Hungarian-Serbian border in August 2015 by Slovak journalist Robert Tapert; faces of the Suvorov boys from Russian Pavel Volkov; bright, light-filled shooting of the reindeer herders' camp, where the permafrost shown by a Russian photographerDmitry Tkachukas bright as ever; and much more. The exhibition is held at the Museum of Moscow from August 31 to September 11, admission to the exhibition is free, age restrictions are 18+.

Ruth Ahhorn, member of the competition jury, photo editor of GEO magazine, commented on the choice of the jury: “The jury could not remain indifferent to the emotional charge, the soulful character of each picture from this series. The episode tells about the life of a young woman with cerebral palsy. The kind heart and delicate taste of the photographer helps to show the beauty and strength of this young woman. To us, the audience, it becomes clear that her greatest desire is to live the way healthy people live. Before us is not a heartbreaking picture of the suffering of a young woman with disabilities, but a story about joyful and happy moments that happen in her life. The jury considered it to be an extremely intimate plot with a strong pictorial line. The photographer has proven his ability to capture expressive details. Despite its intimate nature, this is a story about the lives of many people suffering from the same or similar diseases. "

At the award ceremony and the opening of the photo exhibition of the winners cEO of MIA "Russia Today" Dmitry Kiselev noted : “It is an honor and pleasure to discover new names of young professionals who are already determining the future vector of development of photojournalism.”

Director of the Museum of Moscow Alina Saprykina: “For the second year in a row, the Museum of Moscow hosts an exhibition of the winners of the Andrei Stenin photo contest. The participants of the international competition are recognized photojournalists and amateur beginners. These are lively, very vital works, representing not only the news agenda, but also fixing life modern society, the dynamics of large cities. These are stories ordinary people, our contemporaries, documenting the smallest transformations, events and phenomena. "

The exhibition presents more than 200 works of the best young photographers in the world - talented, daring, sensitive and open to everything new. They presented their kaleidoscope of life.

Grand Prix Winner - Italian photographer Danilo Garcia Di Meo

« Letizia, the story of an invisible life» . Danilo Garcia Di Meo. Italy.The lack of oxygen at the time of birth caused the girl to have cerebral palsy - she has spastic quadriplegia. When she was five years old, the family moved closer to Rome to provide her with modern treatment. She needs a wheelchair, she cannot speak and control her body. She has the best control over her head.

« Jewish Holidays» ... Orthodox Jews pray in front of the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem after the celebration of Yom Kippur, September 23, 2015, Rui Li, China

« Living village» . Alexey Malgavko. Russia.Residential building in the Omsk region.

« South Sudan: From War to Life» . Alessandro Rota. Italy i. Owners of a large cattle - half nomads. The war took its toll on their lives, limiting their ability to move around the bush. In addition, other problems arose, for example, the cows became an easy target for soldiers looking for fresh meat. These people sprinkle ashes on themselves as decoration. More than 100,000 people fled here due to the civil war that began in December.

« Village school» . Oleg Ponomarev. Russia.A village school that has existed since 1884. A place where you stop feeling the time. Students' faces, their clothes, carved doors and a village landscape behind large windows with wooden frames, form a surprisingly sincere, romantic image of something outgoing and truly beautiful.

« Lake» ... Nadezhda has just opened an aviary where young cranes are kept. All daylight hours, young cranes move freely, and sometimes fly away for a short time. They are locked in an aviary only for the night. Mikhail Domozhilov. Russia

« White silence» ... This story is about people who are not ready to exchange their freedom, albeit under difficult conditions, for something else. Dmitry Tkachuk. Russia

« Bearish angle » ... This is one of the tributaries of the river. Nizhnyaya Tunguska, time has stopped here a little, as in suspended animation - but flows a little, keeping the main traditions of hunting, fishing and the peculiarities of survival in isolation. Elena Anosova. Russia

« Suvorovites» ... Mikhail Yakovlev, 11 years old, Moscow, 3rd company, 3rd platoon. Pavel Volkov. Russia

" Algae collectors « ... A harvester of mochoco seaweed, also known as "cochayuyo", in the Peruvian city of Pacasmayo. Bertha Tilmantayte. Lithuania

One of the first rehearsals in the Moscow big top. Mikhail Domozhilov. Russia

« Confrontation» ... Martina Batini (Italy) during the final bout of the women's team foil fencing event at the World Fencing Championships in Moscow. Alexey Filippov. Russia

2015 World Aquatics Championships. Diving. Alexey Malgavko. Russia

" School of Olympic reserve « ... This episode was filmed mainly in the spring and summer of 2012 during everyday training of teenagers in Olympic reserve schools in Sochi, Moscow and Yekaterinburg. The last shooting was made in 2015. Julia Abzaltdinova. Russia

« Weightlessnessb» ... Maria Paseka performs the uneven bars exercise during the women's team all-around event at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Glasgow. Vladimir Astapkovich. Russia

Berkasovo, Serbia. Balash Beli. Hungary

" Check-in queue« ... A refugee child, covered with a raincoat, stands in line to register at the Presevo refugee camp. Most of the refugees who entered Serbia are trying to continue on their way to Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia and other EU countries. Matic Zorman, Slovenia

"Knights". Football club fans« Zamalek» Celebrating winning the league championship with flares and flags. Geghad Hamdi, Egypt

« Fleeing death» ... A man with a child in his arms escapes shelling by government forces in Idlib, Syria, after being captured by insurgents, April 5, 2015 Ammar Abdullah, Syria

Full information about the winners and their works can be found in the section on

The brightest works of photojournalists from all over the world can be seen in Moscow. The exhibition opened today, admission is free. It features photographs of the laureates of the photojournalism competition. It was organized in memory of Andrei Stenin. Our colleague died two years ago during the hostilities in Donbass. The competition named after him is the largest platform with thousands of participants.

Pictures that are worth a thousand words. Stories of people willing to do anything for freedom. Children forced to work away from home and family. The legless lion tamer and the Asian dictator - is it just his counterpart?

The largest and only platform in Russia where young photographers are discovered. This year, 6,000 entries from more than 70 countries were submitted for the Andrei Stenin Photojournalism Contest. The exhibition at the Museum of Moscow includes the best of the best, 200 winners in various nominations.

“There were five categories, in each category we chose three places, but there were so many works that we had to give a special mark to the jury in almost every category, in a single or in a series,” says Jury member Ksenia Nikolskaya.

In the lenses of cameras, not only events that will go down in history: the war in Syria and thousands of refugees off the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It is as if the author himself is visible in each picture.

The Palestinian photographer Ashraf Amra could not come to the award ceremony, he is a resident of a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. But Amra dedicated his victory and this picture - of a father mourning the death of a child - to his dead fellow journalists.

Danilo Garcia Di Meo became the winner of the competition. The Grand Prix with a prize fund of 500 thousand rubles was awarded to a series of his works entitled "The Story of Invisible Life". The brave girl Letizia with the terrible diagnosis of cerebral palsy changed his life forever, says the Italian photographer.

“Laetitia is paralyzed, she cannot control her body, only her eyes and head - for this she uses a computer in the form of a sensor attached to the back of her head. Thanks to her ability and ability to use a computer, she can work, she is a secretary. The main goal of my work is to tell about her, about people who are strangers to us, about whom we know nothing, and we don’t want to know anything, ”says Danilo Garcia Di Mer, a photographer from Italy.

These photographs of great sports victories in a matter of seconds became the most popular on the Internet, and a resident of Yekaterinburg Fedor Telkov, the winner in the “Colors of the World. Harmony of Life ”, decided to tell about those whom we hardly know. The heroes of his works were the Ural Old Believers.

“The Old Believers are very little studied visually today; the fact is that in the thirties there was a lot of tragic Old Believers associated with photographs, and I did such a large study of Old Believers in the Urals, and this is, in fact, the first shooting from this large, future project, ”says Fyodor Telkov.

The photojournalism competition is named after Andrei Stenin, a photojournalist for MIA Rossiya, who died in Donbas. His mother came to congratulate the laureates today.

“They seemed to be overcoming step by step. This is pride in my son. He did everything, it seems to me, according to the principle "if not me, then who is it?" Therefore, he climbed there, in the Donbass; Maybe I wanted to shoot the most such shots so that people could see what was happening there, ”says Vera Stenina, Andrei Stenin's mother.

It will be possible to view the works of the best young photographers from all over the world in the Museum of Moscow from August 31. The exhibition of the winners of the Andrey Stenin Photo Contest will run until September 16.

On November 8 MIA Rossiya Segodnya announced the winner of the Grand Prix at the Andrei Stenin International Photojournalism Competition at the Exhibition Complex of the Historical Museum. After the award ceremony, an exhibition of the laureates' works was opened, which is available to everyone from November 9 to 30. Admission to the exhibition is free during the opening hours of the museum.

25 young photographers from 14 countries of the world, including Russia, Iraq, Iran, Spain, Italy, Belarus, Israel, South Africa and others, competed for the right to become the owner of the Grand Prix of the competition in 2018. The exhibition includes about 200 works by the best young photojournalists who demonstrate all the versatility of life, incorporating iconic images of the surrounding reality - from the biblical beauty of the limestone mines of Upper Egypt to the clip editing of post-election events in Kenya in the fall of 2017; from the Arctic ethnicity of the Nenets nomads to the red-hot images of sports battles on the tennis courts of Roland Garros2017.

The exhibition complex of the State Historical Museum has become the first site for the works of the winners of the competition, after which they will tour the exhibition areas of the world.

About the competition: The Andrei Stenin International Photojournalism Competition, organized by the Rossiya Segodnya MIA under the auspices of the RF Commission for UNESCO, aims to support young photographers and draw public attention to the tasks of modern photojournalism. This is a platform for young photographers - talented, sensitive and open to everything new, where they draw our attention to people and events near us.

The general information partners of the competition are: the information and news portal Vesti.Ru, the all-Russian state TV channel "RussiaKultura", the information portal ZhurDom and the portal Russian Photo... The international media partners of the competition were: Sputnik news agency and radio, Askanews news agency, Independent Media media holding, Notimex news agency, ANA news agency, RT TV channel and portal, The Royal Photographic Society, Shanghai United Media Group (SUMG), TeleSUR international multi-platform information platform , China Daily newspaper web portal, Frontline magazine, PNA news agency, AlYoum AlSabee online portal and newspaper, The Paper web portal, Bernama news agency, national broadcaster Radio Republik Indonesia, Al Mayadeen media network. In the status of industry information partners, the competition is supported by the Academy of Photography, the GeoFoto agency, the Photostudy.ru portal, the Moscow Union of Journalists, the Union of Russian Photographers, the School of Visual Arts, and the YOung JOurnalists information portal.

Exhibition best photos 2017 by young authors from all over the world,will open on September 8, 2017... The exposition will include more than 200 works of the best young photojournalists from 14 countries of the world, including Russia, China, India, Spain, Italy, Serbia, Greece and others. Exhibitionwill last until September 17, works free of charge and is open to visitors during the opening hours of the museum.

The photographs of the exposition capture fragments of life ordinary people and significant events in the life of big cities and countries; they found an expressive photographic image of moments of sports and bright ethnic holidays. The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography will become the first exhibition site for the winners of the competition, after which they will tour the exhibition sites in Russia and the world.

The Andrei Stenin International Photojournalism Competition aims to support young photographers and draw public attention to the challenges of contemporary photojournalism. This is a platform for young photographers - talented, sensitive and open to everything new, where they draw our attention to people and events near us.

Information partners of the competition were: the information and news portal Vesti.Ru, the all-Russian state television channel "Russia-Culture", the information and news portal KP.ru, the information portal ZhurDom and the Russian Photo portal. The international media partners of the competition are: news agency and radio Sputnik, news agency

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