2023-10-04 19:04:56
The Peace Image 2023 comes from South Korea. The jury of the Global Peace Photo Awards selected the work “Combing Peace” by the artist Elrea Song from more than 19,000 submissions from 133 countries for the 10,000 euro prize. For the picture, the photographer asked children to retrieve trash from the sea to show the delicate relationship between humans and nature. The children created almost surreal sculptures on the beach from the discarded rubbish.
The Global Peace Photo Award, whose cooperation partner is the APA, was awarded for the eleventh time in parliament on Wednesday evening. Established in 2013 as the Alfred Fried Photography Award, the Global Peace Photo Award is a global peace photography award and attracts entries from more than 120 countries each year. The 34-member international jury selects five photographs for the Global Peace Awards. The Peace Picture of the Year for a child was also chosen. The other award winners come from Spain, Georgia, Morocco, Russia and the Netherlands. The winning photos can be seen in the Parliament auditorium.
In his opening words, National Council President Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) reported on his recent trip to Ukraine. “Only when both work together – freedom and peace – can there be prosperity,” emphasized Sobotka.
The Russian war of aggression once morest Ukraine was also the subject of the award-winning Russian photographer Marina Sychewa (Sycheva). The artist, who works in Moscow, portrayed young couples who have decided to get married once morest a dark background. When couples in Russia decide to get married, there is a special reason for it since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she explained her work. “If one of them already lives abroad, it’s easier for the other to catch up. If one of the partners goes to prison because he demonstrated once morest Putin, because he supposedly denigrated the army, because he even evaded military service wanted, it would be easier for a spouse to visit him.”
Since there is no freedom of speech in Russia, it was important for her to have a voice and to be able to speak to the audience in Vienna, said Sycheva “on behalf of all the people who do not support this terrible war in Ukraine.” She confirmed to the APA that she knew that it was dangerous for her to say words like these.
The prize for a child’s peace picture went to 14-year-old barbarian Chikviladze from Tbilisi. Her photo “Waterfun” shows a girl dancing in the water jet of an irrigation system. According to the young photographer, she knows that 20 percent of her country, Georgia, is occupied by Russia, but peace has to do with freedom. Freedom makes you happy, as happy as her friend was at that moment in a summer garden in Rustavi when Barbare pressed the shutter. “Every child deserves to be happy and live in a peaceful country,” the girl explained.
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