International stage of Stenin photo contest roadshow kicks off in Beijing
22 / 10 / 2024The international stage of the 2024 Andrei Stenin photo contest winning works has kicked off in China.
For the first time, the winning works of 2024 are presented at the Photo Beijing International Photo Week, one of the largest Chinese photo art festivals. The opening ceremony took place on October 18, at the Millennium Beijing World Art Museum.
The competition works of six photojournalists who won the 2024 contest – Pelageya Tikhonova from Russia, Gunnar Oberhosel from South Africa, Jahid Apu, Abdul Momin and Mosfiqur Rahman Johan from Bangladesh, and Arpan Basu Chaudhuri from India – were displayed as part of the Youth Photo Art TOP-100 thematic exhibition at the festival.
“Cooperation with international photo festivals makes it possible to showcase works by young and talented photographers who took part in the Stenin contest both to specialists and wide audiences. We are happy that, in the year of our 10thanniversary, we can take part in Photo Beijing, which is one of the largest photo platforms in Asia"
- Stenin Contest Curator Oksana Oleinik said.
The international roadshow of the 10th Andrei Stenin International Photo Contest will next travel to Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.
As per tradition, the submission of photos for the 11thcontest will open on December 22, 2024, on Andrei Stenin’s birthday, at http://stenincontest.ru in Russian and http://stenincontest.com in English and Chinese.
Beijing Photo is one of the largest photo events in China. It is organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China, the China Association of Photographers and other significant photo and cultural organizations in China.