MOSCOW (Sputnik) – This year the contest had a record-breaking international reach, featuring photographers from 71 countries and from all five continents.
"We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Stenin Photo Contest. This year we introduced new categories to give young photographers the opportunity to cover a wider range of issues," Alexander Shtol, the director of Rossiya Segodnya’s Photo Information Directorate, noted.
In the Sports category, Russia's Alexei Malgavko won for the photo "2015 FINA world championships. Diving" and his fellow citizen Alexei Filippov secured victory for the series titled "Confrontation."
In the My Country category, Elena Chernomortseva from Russia finished on top with the photograph "The history in water" and Dmitry Tkachuk, also from Russia — with the series called "White silence." Italy's Danilo Garcia Di Meo won in the Portrait & Hero of Our Time category with the photo series titled "Letizia, A Story of Unseen Lives."
The full list of winners is available on the website stenincontest.com.
The awards ceremony, where the winner of the competition's top prize – the Grand Prix — will be announced, will take place in Moscow on August 30, 2016, and it will coincide with the opening ceremony of the exhibition of the winning entries.
The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest aims to promote young photographers and raise public awareness of photojournalism and its purpose. It is Russia’s only platform purposely aimed at discovering new photojournalists and supporting and encouraging high standards of documentary photography in Russia and the around world.
The 2016 contest was supported by major Russian and international media outlets, news agencies and photo societies. Its general information sponsors are: Russia-K TV channel, Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, the news and information portal jourdom.ru and the Russian Photo portal.
The contest’s international information partners are: Italian news agency Askanews, Spain's EFE news agency, Brazilian media corporation EBC, official Mexican news agency Notimex, RT broadcaster, The Royal Photographic Society, Shanghai United Media Group (SUMG), China's Xinhua news agency, South Africa's company Independent Media, Indonesia's ANTARA Foto press photo agency.
The contest’s professional information partners are: Russia's Academy of Photography, the agency Geophoto.ru, the photography educational website photo-study.ru, the Moscow Union of Journalists, the Union of Student and Youth Media, the portal Young Journalists and the Uglich Photo Parade festival.
