The General Secretariat of the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Prize for Photography announced the winners of the ninth session of the award, which was titled "Water", and the Australian photographer, "Yasmine Curry" won the grand prize, which is valued at 120 thousand dollars. In her photo, the Australian photographer documented a scene from the world of the seas. A mother of the humpback whale sleeps beside her two-week-old baby. This photograph was taken in the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific.
Emirati creativity sparkled in the ninth session of the award, with a bilateral victory for photographers Youssef bin Shukr Al-Zaabi and Rashid Al-Sumaiti, accompanied by a remarkable Saudi excellence for Saudi photographers Abdullah Al-Shathry and Fahd Faraj Abdul Hamid, accompanied by Kuwaiti photographers Fahd Al-Anzi and Talal Al-Rabah.
While the Iraqi photographer Karrar Hussein completed the visual creativity contract in a photographic leap, which captured three thirds of the ninth session. The public spectacle also celebrated the winners of the Indian lens, which was able to win five awards in different axes.
The General Security of the award, Ali Khalifa Bin Thalih, praised the remarkable excellence of the Gulf lens in this international forum, considering that the victory of the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq countries by one third of the total prizes for this session is practical evidence of the size, type and seriousness of the creative efforts exerted to ignite competition between all and prove the feasibility of work Cognitive and skill development on international benefit platforms.