Βραβείο για τον φωτογράφο Αλέξανδρο Μιχαηλίδη, που ζει και εργάζεται στις Βρυξέλλες

Ο φωτορεπόρτερ Αλέξανδρος Μιχαηλίδης που ζει και εργάζεται στις Βρυξέλλες, διακρίθηκε στον φετινό διεθνή διαγωνισμό φωτογραφίας της Σιένας (SIPA Contest), στην κατηγορία της «φωτοειδησεογραφίας». O έλληνας φωτογράφος απέσπασε το 3ο βραβείο, για την λήψη του κατά την διάρκεια των διαδηλώσεων των «Κίτρινων Γιλέκων» στην βελγική πρωτεύουσα, τον Δεκέμβριο του 2018.
Το πρώτο βραβείο απέσπασε ο ιταλός Alessio Paduano για την λήψη του στη Μεσόγειο, κατά την διάρκεια μιας διάσωσης μεταναστών από μέλη της ισπανικής ΜΚΟ, Proactiva Open Arms. Στην δεύτερη θέση, ο αμερικάνος Matt McClain, στην φωτογραφία του οποίου διακρίνεται ο γιος ενός θανόντα στρατιωτικού των αμερικανικών ειδικών δυνάμεων (που έχασε τη ζωή του κατά την διάρκεια άσκησης), μπροστά στο μνήμα του, στο Κοιμητήριο του Άρλινγκτον.

Δείτε όλες τις φωτογραφίες που διακρίθηκαν:

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Author: Alessio Paduano (IT)

Location: Mediterranean Sea

Description: Members of the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms rescue Josepha, an African migrant from Cameroon, while the body of a woman lies on a piece of driftwood about 85 miles off the Libyan coast.

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Author: Matt McClain (US)

Location: Arlington (USA)

Description: 7-year-old Christian Jacobs sits against the headstone of his father, U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Christopher James Jacobs, as he visits in observance of Memorial Day on May 28th, 2018, at Arlington National Cemetery. Christopher died during a training exercise in 2011.

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Author: Alexandros Michailidis (BE)

Location: Brussels (Belgium)

Description: A woman is sprayed with teargas by a riot police officer during the “Yellow Vests” protests against the increase in fuel prices in Brussels on December 8th, 2018.

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Author: Wei Tan (US)

Location: Shopian (India)

Description: Nineteen-month-old Hiba Nisar from the Kapran Village in Shopian, Kashmir. On November 25, 2018, while in her mother’s arms at home, she was hit in her right eye by pellets shot from an Indian officer’s pellet gun during an encounter between militants and security forces. Doctors at SMHS hospital in Srinagar are concerned she may have permanent vision loss in her right eye. Pellet-guns were introduced in Kashmir by the Indian police in 2010. In recent years, more than 6,000 people have lost their eyesight completely or partially after being struck by the pellets.

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Author: Mustafa Hassona (PS)

Location: Palestine

Description: A shirtless young protester gripping a Palestinian flag with one hand and swinging a slingshot over his head with the other, on the northern border between Gaza Strip and Israel during protests against the Israeli blockade.

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Author: Mario Llorca Loureiro (IT)

Location: Lima (Peru)

Description: During Pope Franci’s visit in Peru, security forces and police occupy the main roads of the capital to avoid riots during the popular protests against the polemical decision by Premier Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to pardon former President Alberto Fujimori.

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Author: Juan Carlos . (US)

Location: Veracuz (Mexico)

Description: Central American migrant families, mostly from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, await to board buses to take them to Mexico City, with the goal of reaching the southwestern USA border to seek refuge.

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Author: Jacob Ehrbahn (DK)

Location: Patras (Greece)

Description: Around 700 refugees, mainly young men from Afghanistan, have settled in old factory buildings in the port city of Patras. They try to fool the harbor police and reach the fences surrounding the trucks that have passed through security and await boarding a ferry to Italy.

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Author: Jacob Ehrbahn (DK)

Location: Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh)

Description: It’s been nine months since more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled ethnic violence in Myanmar. In the world’s largest refugee camp everyday life scenes emerge in the hilly, clayey landscape south-east of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. Right next to their home on a hilltop in the Balukhali camp a family has opened a small store. Ayoub Khan, 5, eats his dinner while his 10-year-old sister Sufira Begum keeps him company.

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Author: Aude Guerrucci (CA)

Location: Washington, DC, USA

Description: U.S. President Donald Trump is photographed in a corridor of the White House under a portrait of Hillary Clinton, his main opponent in the 2016 presidential elections. Washington, DC, March 7, 2017.

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Author: Arnaud Guillard (FR)

Location: Paris (France)

Description: A protester of the “Yellow Vests” wearing a surreal outfit in Paris on the Avenue des Champs Elysées. On one of the most famous and fashionable streets in the world, when the time has come to fight for your rights, there is no need to be fashionable.

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Author: Anthony AsCer Aparicio (AR)

Location: Caracas (Venezuela)

Description: Luis Theis is a young artist who was arrested on May 18th, 2016 during a protest against Nicolas Maduro’s government. He was accused of assaulting a female officer of the National Police who was trying to block the demonstrators in Caracas. After his capture, the Venezuelan artistic community reacted and turned “viral” the images of his violent arrest. Following a week of intense legal struggle Theis was freed. Like other rebels before him, Theis became an icon for Venezuelan youth.