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THE WINNER OF this year’s student category of the World Photography Awards will receive €35,000 worth of Sony equipment.
Nice.
The entry list has been whittled down to 10 entries from talented, emerging photographers in the UK, US, South Africa, Bangladesh, New Zealand, China, Romania and Denmark.
Organisers say:
“Student Focus is one of the largest international programmes for photography students. Involving 230 educational institutions worldwide, its aim is to support and inspire the future generation of photographers.”
Applicants were asked to submit a single image under a brief: “Tomorrow’s News’. Here are their entries (and their own words):
Nadia Navarro, 28 from Argentina says of her photo: “Those who are looking for their daily freedom through various ways of resistance, they are the tomorrow news rebels. Rebellion is an intern resistance, big revolutions will exist through people who fight against the society prejudices with daily little actions which defy the pre-establishment.”
Rahul Talukder, 23, took this shot of the Rana Plaza tragedy in his native Bangladesh. He says: “More than 1,130 workers died and 2,500 injured in this deadliest garment-factory accident in history.”
“The story behind the picture is that the Danish government has decided to include special needs children in regular public schools. And they have closed a lot of the schools who took care of special needs children,” says photographer Tor Birk Trads, 27.
“The idea is that the special needs children should be included in the daily life of kids with ‘normal’ intelligence. But the backside is that the inclusions not always function very well. The teachers are not yet educated to take on this extra responsibility and they lack time to deal with the special needs children.”
Student Li Dandan, 22, took this photo in China on 23 September last year. The subject, Liu Yuanhuang, said: “I’m not an alien, it’s just glaucoma!”
University of Auckland student Chloe Riddell, 25, took this image of twins Tayah and James who were living with their grandmother. Three months later, they were separated from each other.
“This photography was taken in October 2013, on a field at the limit of Cluj-Napoca city in Transilvania,” explains 21-year-old Sebastian Vacariuc from Romania. “At a certain moment, an old man appeared and started walking around. He seemed absorbed by inner thoughts , by a sort of vision or premonition.
“The contrast between him and the grim ambient rooted in the background block of flats increased as he seemed to have appeared out of nothing and to have no specific direction or intention of really going somewhere.
“He created the impression of being suspended in time and space, just an aged actor passing through an empty stage set. The light coming from behind emphasised this peculiar old character walking in silence at the edge of a noisy city.
“A subtle connection between these elements composing the image provoked the desire to capture it, to revisit it again, to understand it. The news of tomorrow may be found in transcending images as this one.”
“South Africa’s desegregated top-tier schools still face challenges of diversity and old institutional ideologies,” according to Russell Bruns of Rhodes University – School of Fine Art.
“Don Wessels, age 53, has been disabled and blind for 27 years. In 1987, he was conscripted into the Apartheid-era South African army. In 1988, he was on a reconnaissance investigation in the Angolan bush when he was caught in a near-fatal explosion from a landmine. The explosion took his sight and both his hands,” says Tara Mette of her subject.
“Since his accident, Don has obtained a BA Degree at the University of Stellenbosch, Honours and Masters postgraduate degrees in international politics with UNISA. He was nominated as a candidate running for Parliament in 1999.
“To Don, his best accomplishment was to marry his wife, Maatje van Wyk in 2001. The couple have had many adventures including climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and they have twice completed a four-day canoeing trip down the Orange River. There first baby, Matteo, was born on the 15 October 2007 and their second, Francois, on 8 June 2009.”
“The internet has become an almost-holy entity in the supreme power that it represents, can religion really be immune to its take over? In truth, the internet is already its own kind of religion,” says Scarlet Evans, 22, from the UK.
“I often find it difficult to know where I stand with myself,” says student photographer Jordan VanSise. “While I try to hold on to the value and the beauty of this life, I am constantly reminded of the things I have come witness to and I wonder what the point of all this is.”
Who is your winner? Let us know in the comments section. All 10 are now required to create a series of images under the title ‘Self Portraits’. The winner will be announced in London on 30 April.
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FG on course for an epic victory, couldn’t be happier :)
@Paul M Doe: Well done.
@Tezmond McVicar: thank you :)
Hopefully Independents and small parties like the freedom party and Independent Ireland do well.
@common sense: It’s a pity we haven’t more politicians of Carol Nolan’s calibre!
@Dave Callaghan: I like her
@common sense: Far-right parties like the ‘Freedom Party’ are the last thing we need. Hopefully they’ll run separately and split their vote.
@Brendan O’Brien: It’s a matter of time before a far right party get into power, just like the rest of Europe. Macron in France had to join the literal Communist party of France to stay in power by the skin of their teeth. They wont survive the next one though. Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Germany etc. all following
@Cole Palmer: all the more reason to resist it now
@Cole Palmer: Nazi smurf would be dropped off at pre-school, the tiny goon that he is!
@common sense: you mean all those who got a mere 1% support in June ?
@common sense: really need to change your name from common sense with that post.
@Cole Palmer: the funny thing is, if the far rite get elected, the first they would get rid of are the very fools that voted them in.
@Cole Palmer: 100% agree
@common sense: that’s 1% of the vote taken care off
The choice of opposition is shocking but have to choose them over these robbers.
@Basildon Joe: northern bank robbers?
@Paul M Doe: I’d have voted for them if they weren’t so pro Palestine terrorists
@Basildon Joe: says a lot about you that you would have even considered
If it works don’t fix it. But either of the FF or FG parties have the historic record of running the country to a high level. The left wing muddlers world wide are being exposed and rejected. The population especially the poor need a successful economy to pay for services.
@thomas molloy: We are one of the richest countries in the world. We have a powerful economy. We have horrific public services with many crises due to a neoliberal government with two main parties of the same nature for the last 100 years. Running the country to a high level… ehh, maybe for the private sector?
@deadslys: yes agree with you. 100 years and trying to privatise everything biggest problem here
@martin finnegan: fully agree. But there are two problems. Firstly, neo liberalism has come to be accepted as ‘natural’ and people believe there is no real alternative. Secondly, apart from pbp we have no party that absolutely opposes this ideology. Of course, they get little or no coverage, and when they do, they routinely f up because they have no real understanding of how to make their alternative appeal to voters. Depressing situation really.
@Alan: No coverage! That twerp is never off the telly
Yeah like it’s going to make any difference! Ff/FG back in power again, but make sure you vote so it looks like you have a choice!! You don’t!!!
@pat kelly: You do have a choice. So stop crying over nothing.
@pat kelly: You do have a choice. Yes, FF and FG will probably win, but enough seats to govern on their own is by no means a certainty. There are lots of other parties out there who could form part of a coalition, and a good coalition party can have a big say in a program for government. So use your vote!!
@pat kelly: people need to vote , otherwise this government benefits from your lack of voting. If you want change, you need to vote strategically, no point in voting independents if they are ex ffg,
As they lost their seats for a reason.
If you want change vote every other party except ffg.
@pat kelly: so you will be crying but won’t bother to vote ,your kind are the worse
Yes independents all way no way voting ff or fg
Reason lot young people in particular are struggling to get out mam s and dads. For all rest Irish getting doc appointment and let not forget cost living so hard have life here if was 20 year younger and no bills id leave here . Very hard get ahead no get basics here
@martin finnegan: if you do, don’t go to England. It’s even worse there.
Make sure you are registered, and get out and vote for FG
@Lefty Cries: Getting polled at last Virgin?
@Freda Peeple: sex obsessed looper is on repeat lol
@Paul M Doe: Stop teasing me you slippery little virgin xoxo
@Lefty Cries: Never tell anyone who to vote for. None of your business.
@Tezmond McVicar: on the 29th, I will be outside my local polling station, telling voters to make sure they vote for FG
@Freda Peeple: serious incel vibes lol
@Tezmond McVicar: ignore the FG bootlicker
@Freda Peeple: Is this fried egg back again? He was very quite in the Trump being elected articles.
ANYONE THAT VOTES FFG G SF NEEDS TO GO SEE A PYCHRIS
@M G: You need to see a typist.
@M G: What is a “pychris”?
Who was it who said “Bad governments are the result of good people not voting”? Register. Decide. VOTE!
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: well said
If Sharia Fein get into power I am going to request Donald Trump to nuke Ireland
Hopefully good and competent politicians from FF/FG/Greens/Social Democrats/People before profit will rule this country! Far right parties=drug gangs should be banned in Ireland forever!
My independent turned out to be a woke clown. So I will not vote
@Dan Murphy: then don’t complain it you can’t be arsed voting
Can anyone say they know of any young people who actually bought on the grants. The government is bantering about.
Leaders questions is farcical.
100,000 vacant properties still lying idle.
Wait till Trumph reduces corporation tax in USA then all the cards will fall in Ireland unfortunately.
Mongo is pawn in game of life!
@damien leen: at least get the quote right lol
@Paul M Doe: hey….IFKU…have a nice day…
I have no interest in voting, for what it’s just a hopeless cause
@Paul: maybe educate yourself,
Voting is your right, every vote makes a difference ffg love people like you.
@Colette Byrne: so by not voting you are voting for the government.
I will certainly use my vote, but how, that’s yet to be mulled over.
Nearly 20 years in Ireland still can’t vote
@Mickstawowy: I believe you need to apply for citizenship or be from the UK. What do you expect?
@Mickstawowy: Are you a citizen?
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Not all Irish citizens living in Ireland can vote! That sounds like noncese but it’s exactly what is going on. Person with a certificate of naturalization declaring him and Irish citizen cannot vote because when he submits this certificate of naturalization as a proof of his citizenship – he recovers NO any reply! They just ignore such requests. That is totally unlawful and absolutely disgrace but exactly what happens at present – Irish citizens with proof of their citizenship sneaky not allowed to vote!
@Mickstawowy: your not a citizen.
@Colette Byrne: why should you have to be a citizen to vote!if you have lived in Ireland for a number of years, shouldn’t you be allowed to have some say in electing the government?
@Soundy Sound: yeah 2,5k e and tones of paper for myself and my lovely wife so feck it better go for holiday
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