Reporters From Bhutan, Yemen, Luxembourg Apply For Stenin Photo Contest For 1st Time

The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest, organized by the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency under the aegis of the Commission of Russia for UNESCO, has expanded its geographical reach to new countries as young photo correspondents from Bhutan, Luxembourg, Papua New Guinea, Sudan and Yemen, have applied for it for the first time.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 20th February, 2019) The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest, organized by the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency under the aegis of the Commission of Russia for UNESCO, has expanded its geographical reach to new countries as young photo correspondents from Bhutan, Luxembourg, Papua New Guinea, Sudan and Yemen, have applied for it for the first time.

Foreign entries at this year's contest are dominated by photographers from North Africa and Asia, including Egypt, India and Iran. At the same time, there are also quite a few entrants from Italy, Spain, France, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Bangladesh. Foreign contestants clearly prefer colored photo series as a way to convey their message.

Entries can be filed until February 28 on the contest's website, stenincontest.com, and more than 2,000 works by young photo reporters from 56 countries have already been submitted. The contest is open to photo correspondents from any country aged between 18 and 33 years old. This is the only platform in Russia that helps discover new Names in international photo journalism and set the quality criteria for documentary photography.

In 2019, the contenders will compete in five categories: Top News, Sport, My Planet, and Portrait: A Hero of Our Time, and Inspiration. The jury will award three winners in every category, as well as the contest's top award, the Grand Prix. My Planet and Portrait: A Hero of Our Time remain the most popular categories, with almost double the images compared to the other two categories.

The prize money for this year's first, second and third place winners will be 100,000, 75,000 and 50,000 rubles (approximately $1,500, $1,120 and $750), respectively.

The Grand Prix winner will receive 700,000 rubles (approximately $10,470). Another perk of winning is having your work showcased both in Russia and around the world in a traveling exhibition that has become a fixture of the contest and already reached dozens of major cities in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the middle East.

The main goal of the Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest is to support young photographers and draw public attention to the challenges of modern photojournalism. This event is a platform for young photographers; talented, empathetic and open-minded, they draw our attention to people and events around us.

The contest was first organized in December 2014 in memory of Russian photojournalist Andrei Stenin. He was killed while on assignment in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on August 6, 2014 after his car was shot at and burned on a highway.

In 2019, the general media partners of the contest include the news website Vesti.Ru and the Russian state Rossiya-Kultura tv channel. The international information partners of the contest include Sputnik International Information Agency and Radio, Askanews Information Agency, Independent Media Holding, Notimex News Agency, ANA News Agency, RT channel and website, Shanghai United Media Group (SUMG), China Daily website, PNA news agency, AlYoum AlSabee newspaper and website, The Paper website, and Al Mayadeen media network. The industry partners supporting the contest are the Russian Photo and Photo-study.ru websites, school of Visual Arts, academy of Photography, the YOung JOurnalists information portal, the Contrastes magazine, the Fotoargenta magazine, the All About Photo website, and PhotON festival as an international partner.