| | | | | | | | | "Combing Peace" by Elrea Song, South Korea is the Peace Image of the Year 2023. | | | | Peace Image of the Year 2023 | | | | | Global Peace Photo Award 2023 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Carla Kogelman | | | | | | The winners of the international Global Peace Photo Award competition were awarded the Alfred Fried Peace Medal at the Austrian Parliament for the eleventh time.
Winners of the Global Peace Photo Award 2023
Ghassane Kaaibich, Marokko for "Ahyae"
Carla Kogelman, Netherlands for "Majella Park"
Nuria López Torres, Spain for "Bad Hair"
Marina Sycheva, Russia for "I’ll take you away"
Elrea Song (Jiyeon Lee) aus Südkorea für "Combing Peace" | | | | | | | | | | © Elrea Song | | | The Peace Image of the Year 2023
The main prize of 10,000 euros "Peace Image of the Year 2023" went to the South Korean artist and photographer Elrea Song.
Trash, waste. Not the only thing that gets swept into the seas. Human biographies, too, disappear in the nowhere, stories end up on a waste heap, achievements of a lifetime are forgotten, fates fade into eternal darkness. It is wars that do that, natural disasters. But also just the human trait of carelessness. The capacity to suppress what threatens life on our planet.
How to remind us of it in order to change it? How to reclaim what has been swept away? South Korean photographer Elrea Song aka Jiyeon Lee has asked children to take something back from the flotsam of the seas that compresses the fragile relations between humans and nature, between lifestyle and nature consumption into poetically crazy images. Joyful and sad, alarming and wonderful at the same time. Thematizing the flood of plastic as well as the desired welcome for those who seek refuge across the seas.
Peace, says Song, can only go forward, if you lend me your feet. And I lend you mine. Meaning: together. And it needs the joint hopes of us all. And the will to rescue what otherwise will be swept away.
Elrea Song, born 1984, lives in Daejeon, South Korea, with her family and three nieces. They are all engaged in collecting waste along the coast. With her photographs, writes Song, she tries to demonstrate solidarity with people and nature. Song studied Visual Communication Design at the College of Arts. Outside Korea her work has been shown in the USA and in Italy and has earned her an Award for Future Artists.“ – This is how the jury’s laudation summarizes the award-worthiness of Elrea Song’s work. | | | | | | | | | | © Barbare Chikviladze | | | The Children’s Peace Image of the Year 2023
The best peace image in the children’s and youth category, worth 1,000 euros, was won by 14-year-old Barbare Chikviladze from Georgia with her picture "Water Fun".
The jury members from 11 countries found: "Why is the picture we are awarding here a picture of peace for 14-year-old Barbare Chikviladze from the Georgian capital Tbilisi? Because, she writes, she is still young. But she knows very well that 20 percent of her country is occupied by Russia. But peace has to do with freedom. And freedom makes people happy. As happy as her friend was at that moment in a summer garden in Rustavi, when Barbare pressed the shutter release. Every child, she wrote, deserves to be happy and to live in a peaceful country.
Chikviladze, whose mother is a philologist and works in an insurance company and whose father is a lawyer, is growing up as an only child and has taken a liking to playing the piano in her spare time. And besides that, still quite fresh, she has developed an interest in photography. She just finds photography "really fun"". And was thrilled by the happiness in her friend’s eyes and expression." | | | | | | | | | | © Marina Sycheva | | | | | | About the Global Peace Photo Award 2023
19,195 images from 133 countries were submitted for the Global Peace Photo Award 2023. Most of the entries came from India, China, the USA, Germany and Russia.
The submissions were judged by a distinguished international jury: globalpeacephotoaward.org/jury
The Global Peace Photo Award (formerly the Alfred Fried Photography Award) is organized by Edition Lammerhuber and Photographische Gesellschaft (PHG) in partnership with UNESCO, Austrian Parliament, Austrian Parliamentary Reporting Association, International Press Institute (IPI), German Youth Photography Award, World Press Photo Foundation, POY LATAM, LensCulture, APA – Austria Presse Agentur, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh) e.V. and Vienna Insurance Group. | | | | | | | | | | © Ghassane Kaaibich | | | | | | | The prize was inspired by the Austrian pacifist and writer Alfred Hermann Fried (* 11 November 1864 in Vienna; † 4 May 1921 in Vienna). Fried was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911 together with the organiser of the Hague Conference on Private International Law Tobias Asser. | | | | | | | | | | © Nuria López Torresa | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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