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Palestine came first in winning the Hamdan International Photography Award, in its eighth session, which was titled “Hope,” at a closing ceremony held yesterday evening, Tuesday, at the Dubai Opera.
Photographers Haitham Nour El-Din, Suleiman Hajji, and Wissam Nassar, from Gaza City, won awards, while the conditions of the Israeli siege of the Strip prevented Nour El-Din and Hajji from attending, for the third time in a row.
Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, and Abdul Rahman bin Mohammed Al Owais, Minister of Health and Community Protection, honored the winners, in the presence of a large crowd of media professionals and interested parties.
The Secretary-General of the Award, Ali Bin Thalith, stressed that this award, which was launched in 2011, is a tribute to the arts and an enhancement of social awareness for their fundamental role in shaping the future of civilizations, forming a mentality consistent with the process of development, and presenting a scientific truth to everyone, which is that the arts are not classified. Among entertainment luxuries, they are a major backbone in making modern society. The arts have changed the course of history several times and are capable of changing the shape of the future.”
He praised the excellence of the Arab lens in this international forum, considering that the UAE, Palestine, Kuwait and Iraq won a quarter of the total awards for this session, a valuable honor with artistic connotations that herald a better future. He announced the main theme of the ninth session, which is “Water.”
In the “Hope” axis, the Palestinian photographer “Wissam Nassar” came in third place, while the first place went to the photographer “Fani Octavianus” from Indonesia, followed by his compatriot “Muhammad Fakhr Al-Rasheed” in second place, and the Italian “Vito Finocchiaro” took fourth place. , leaving fifth place to his compatriot, photographer Sandro Maddalena.
As for the “General – Color” axis, first place went to “Chen Kuang Chen” from Taiwan, “Karim Elia” from the United States came second, while “Abdullah Al-Shatti” came in third place.
As for the “General - Black and White” axis, the top spot was taken by the photographer “Aoun Reda” from France, followed by the Portuguese photographer “Ana Filipa Scarpa”, and the Hungarian photographer “Tibor Kertz” came third.
In the "Photographic File" category, Palestinian photographer Haitham Nour El-Din won first place, followed by Paul Nicklin from Canada in second place, while third place went to Ukrainian "Yevn Samuchenko" followed in fourth place by "Mustafa Turki Mahnawi" from Iraq. Then Dutch photographer Sarah Vaughters came in fifth place.
In the “Drone” aerial photography section, first place was won by photographer “Florian Ledoux” from France, followed by Palestinian photographer “Suleiman Hajji” in second place, then “Wong Yong Wah” from Malaysia in third place, and photographer “Daruzzi Csaba” from Hungary won. "Attila" came in fourth place, while fifth place went to Spanish photographer Victor Romero Peña.
The grand prize, “Mother...School of Hope,” amounting to 120,000 US dollars, was won by Malaysian photographer Edwin Ong Wike, whose photo documented an intensely emotional human situation around a Vietnamese mother suffering from a speech impediment that did not prevent her from adopting hope as an approach to summoning strength to Raising her children.
British photographer Tim Flack won the Appreciation Award for his distinguished photographic contributions in the fields of nature and the environment throughout his career. As for the “Photographic Content Creators Award,” it was awarded to New Zealand photographer “Tom Ang” for his influential educational role through writing more than (40) books on photography that were translated into more than (20) languages.
The “Most Promising Photographic Personality Award” went to the Emirati photographer “Yousef Al-Habashi”, who was famous for his amazing works in the world of close-up “macro” and “micro” photography, which spread internationally after National Geographic Arabic magazine devoted 14 pages to displaying his works, which were the main content. For the organization’s annual calendar (2016).
Al-Habashi was able to win first place in the scientific competition specializing in microscopic photography “Nikon for Small Worlds” in its 44th session, which was held in the United States of America, as the first Emirati and Arab to win this prestigious competition after competing with scientists and photographers from (89) countries who submitted more than ( 2500) Micrograph.
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