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". The award saw Australian photographer Yasmin Carey win the grand prize of $ 120,000, Emirati photographers Youssef bin Shukr Al-Zaabi won fifth place in the “Main Axis”, and Rashid Al-Sumaiti came in third place with “General Axis”, with a remarkable Gulf excellence for Saudi photographers Abdullah Al-Shatri and Fahd Faraj Abdul Hamid, Kuwaitis Fahd Al-Anzi, and Talal Al-Rabah, while Iraqi photographer Karar Hussain completed the Gulf optical creativity contract in a photographic quality leap, booked one third of the ninth session prizes, which also celebrated the Indian lens that was able to extract five prizes in different axes.
The Secretary-General of the award, Ali Khalifa bin Thalib, thanked and thanked His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, for the patronage of His Highness the award and his continuous support for it. He added during his statement: “Today we are witnessing the folding of the ninth session of the award, whose title was (Water), the oldest friend of man on the face of the planet, and today we see together how the creators of the world see water through their lenses, water, is the major issue that concerns us all, and touches our lives and our continuity, on the planet’s surface. ”
Bin Thali praised the remarkable excellence of the Gulf lens in this international forum, considering that the victory of the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq is a third of the total prizes for this session, is a practical guide of the high style on the size, type and seriousness of creative efforts exerted to ignite competition with everyone, and prove the feasibility of knowledge and skill work on platforms International benefits.
The grand prize takes women for the first time
The largest prize in the world in the field of photography, amounting to 120 thousand dollars, was awarded to the Australian photographer Yasmin Curry, whose photo documented an amazing scene of a mother of the humpback whale sleeping next to her two-week-old baby, "Yasmine". The picture was taken in the Kingdom of "Tonga" South Pacific. The image that won the prizes and first places was distinguished by its diversity in treating and presenting the image of “water.” Some observed water from an aesthetic perspective, such as the Australian pictured that captured the whale, while others went to embody the flood phenomena experienced by some countries during the winter, especially in Indonesia and India, while embodied Other lenses Water during the winter in popular neighborhoods, or aesthetic scenes linked to winter and snow like captured in Poland and Italy.
The awards were distributed in the “main axis” in the following way, as the Belgian photographer Francois Bogart, the Indian photographer Shantha Kumar Shivam Leela won the second place, and the Indonesian photographer Bukhari Muslim Dikin third, while the Indian Suraf Das deserved the fourth position, while the fifth place was from The share of Emirati photographer Youssef bin Shukr Al-Zaabi.
As for the “General-Colored” axis awards, Kuwaiti Fahad Al-Anzi won the first place, while Indonesian Yossi Mirza won second place, while Emirati photographer Rashid Al-Sumaiti won third place. On the other hand, Kuwaiti photographer Talal Al-Rabah grabbed the first position in the "general - black and white" axis, followed by Polish photographer Anna Nimets, and the third was Indian photographer Sujan Sarkar.
In the "Photographer's File" axis, Mexican photographer Christian Vesel Mac Gregor won the first place, followed by Chinese Jovan Coy in the second place, while the third place went to the Indonesian Ata Allah, followed by the Iraqi fourth Karar Hussein, then the Italian photographer Fausto Bodafini in fifth place .
Phone photography
The Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Award for Photography is distinguished by awarding a category for mobile photography awards. The first place was won by the Indian photographer Abratim Pal, who took a picture of the marine nature that appears as if it was a drawing, followed by the Indonesian photographer Bodhi Gunawan in the second place, who took a bird related to a flower, then the Saudi photographer Abdullah Al-Shethri in the third place, who took a picture of Mecca While people circled around the Kaaba with colorful and camouflaged umbrellas, the Saudi photographer Fahad Faraj Abdul Hamid came fourth, and the fifth place was for the Indian photographer Naveen Kumar.
Emiratis Youssef Al-Zaabi won the "Main Axis" and Rashid Al Sumaiti won the "General Axis".
Saudis, Kuwaiti and Iraqi reinforce Gulf excellence in the list of winners.