The Secretariat of the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Award for Photography has announced the winners of the Ingram Competition for the months of February and March.
While the theme of the February competition was "Flowers", the March competition was unique. It was launched as a final edition of the eighth edition of "Hope," under the title "Celebration of Photography" without specifying a specific topic. Winners with VIPs during closing ceremony in Dubai.
Indonesian photographer Agus Sobrianto won the "Audience Selection" and received the SONY Alpha a6300 camera. He was accompanied by UAE photographer Ahmad Obaid Al Naqbi, Kuwait's Mohammed Fahad Al-Mudhi, and Omani Ghany Salem Al-Garfi and the Iraqi Omar Hussein Al-Khazraji. The winners will receive the award's special medal, along with their photos and names on the official account of the award.
"I took the picture in the morning in my garden after it rained the night before, I watched the spider web covered with droplets of water so I could see the reflection of the flower behind it, so the picture came in this beautiful shape," Agus Suprianto said of his winning photo in the Zohour version. . "Although I have won many competitions before, winning one of the Hamdan Bin Mohammed International Photography Awards is truly proud. This win added a lot to me, and it gave my picture a great opportunity for a wide international spread. I think one of the most important results of photography is that it shows the beauty of the world we live in. "
Heat competition
While the edition of the closing ceremony of the competition, "Entgram", a high participation rate lifted the heat of competition and the quality of the work involved, in light of the double attraction of the package of prizes awarded to the three winners; the medal of appreciation for the award, as well as hosting the winners in Dubai, the closing ceremony of the eighth session Which was held at the Dubai Opera and a Nikon D7200 SLR digital camera from Nikon Middle East and Africa.
The American competition was won by Ken Gaeger, Spain's Pedro Luis Ahuriaghira and Saudi Arabia Fatima Mohammed Sabeeha. The photos of the winners and their names were published on the official account of the award on "Instagram".
"I took the picture of Mrs. Tina in a mountain village in Nepal in 2016 as part of a photography trip with a group of photographers and photographers from the Gulf," said Fatima Sabeeha, who won her photo in the "Celebration of Photography." This gentle lady attracted my attention and I started talking With her, and learned that she is raising her little girl and embrace a child of Indian nationality works his parents in the Gulf, and invited me to her modest home to take some pictures of her and the children », pointing out that the woman was speaking English, easy to communicate with them.
"I see in the picture a complete expression of Tina's life," she said. "She lives in the daily routine in terms of caring for the children and restricts them by raising them, as is the rope behind her, which she holds in her hand. The uniformity of color in all elements of the image suggests the habitual life of refined. I was fascinated by the color of her beautiful eyes, so she took pictures at the blue wall to make the eyes more visible. "
"I won several competitions before, but this is my first win on the Ingram platform; the gospel of the win came in the middle of a difficult day. I was thrilled to have won one of the Hamdan Bin Mohammed International Photography Awards, VIPs for the closing ceremony of the eighth edition of the Dubai Opera Award, this is a great honor for any photographer », pointing out that it works through the lens to draw attention to the importance of communication between different cultures and religions, and deepen human communication with people throughout the world.
Ben III: Lenses translate beauty
"The images shared in Zahar's version reflect the unique vision of the creative photographers of beauty symbols," he said. "Everyone sees flowers and rejoice, but photographers' lenses from around the world translate this beauty in ways and means that do not occur. Which enhances the beauty of the flowers and the extent to which the viewer understands the diversity of the aesthetic frames ».
He added: "A copy of the festival has achieved its objectives. We have witnessed amazing visual wonders of exquisite diversity that have traveled us to the ends of the four corners of the earth. The winners were delighted to visit Dubai and attend the closing ceremony of the eighth session, The other in my own perception, because of the double dose of confidence and the belief in the importance of perseverance and hard work to achieve victory, just a wonderful picture may take you to other places in your journey of art ».