NA Editorial
Russian news agency Sputnik announced that registrations are now open for the eighth edition of the annual International Photojournalism Competition, which rewards photoreporters from around the world, aged between 18 and 33.
According to an official statement reached by Notícias de Angola, applications for the competition are made through the official platform of the event director, where photojournalists can submit their work at:
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For this year, the categories and forms of participation remain the same, of which there are four: Main News, Sports, My Planet and Portrait. Each participant can submit a single photo and a series for each category. Registration ends on February 28th.
The first three classified in each category will be awarded monetary amounts, with the first receiving around 1,700 (894 thousand Kwanzas), the second, 1360 dollars (718 thousand kwanzas), and the third, 1000 dollars (528 thousand kwanzas).
The winner of the main prize given by the organization will receive around 9,500 dollars (5 million and 20 thousand kwanzas). Despite the restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the competition has preserved one of its most important traditions: street exhibitions of the laureates in different countries, which will give photo-reporters the opportunity to show their work to the Russian public and international, attract attention to the most relevant contemporary problems and challenges.
The geography of the exhibitions has covered, since its first edition in 2014, dozens of cities in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, since 2018, the United States of America started to host the competition’s exhibitions, in New York, at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN). From 2019, the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, also hosts the exhibitions.
The curator of the International Photojournalism Competition Andrei Stenin, and head of the Visual Projects Service of the media group Rossiya Segodnya, Oksana Oleynik, highlighted that the beginning of the 2022 edition of the competition came: “There is a well-known phrase in Latin: ‘Times change, and the laws change with them’. The pandemic has drastically changed the face of the world, the foundations of our lives, the realities of many professions.”
The competition was named after Andrei Stenin, a special photo-reporter for the Rossiya Segodnya media group, who died in mid-2014 while carrying out a professional assignment near Donetsk, Ukraine.
Organized by the official Sputnik news agency under the aegis of the Russian Federation Commission for UNESCO Affairs, it aims to support young photographers and attract public attention to the tasks carried out by contemporary photojournalism. It is a platform for young, talented, sensitive and open to new photographers, where they show us the people and events around us.