According to RIA Novosti, the main award of the competition was awarded to the Italian photographer Gabriele Cecconi for his work Les Miserables and the Earth, which talks about the migration of the Rohingya people to the south of Bangladesh.
The French News photographer, Syrian by descent Samir Al Dumi, who presented the newsreel “From One Conflict to Another” about the war in Syria, as well as American journalist Kitra Kahana with the work “Caravan of Migrants” about Central American refugees cross the US border in Mexican Tijuana.
Among the winners of the nomination “My Planet” is the work “My Yakutia” by Russian Alexey Vasiliev.
The laureate of the “Inspiration” nomination for the first time at the Stenin competition was photographer Andrea Alai from Italy with a black-and-white picture of Enchanted depicting a nine-year-old girl, Yasa from Donetsk, struggling with Cruson syndrome.
Earlier it was reported that the exhibition of works by the winners of the Stenin competition will be held from September 11 to 29.