Moscow Museum to Showcase Winning Entries of 2016 Andrei Stenin Photo Contest

© Sputnik / Iliya Pitalev / Go to the mediabankPhotographic exhibition of MIA "Rossiya Segodnya" news agency photo correspondent Andrei Stenin killed in Ukraine on professional duty.
Photographic exhibition of MIA Rossiya Segodnya news agency photo correspondent Andrei Stenin killed in Ukraine on professional duty. - Sputnik International
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The Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency, organizer of the Andrei Stenin Photo Contest, announced on Wednesday that it would present the winning entries of the competition in the Museum of Moscow.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The exhibition includes over 200 works of photo correspondents from Russia, China, Hungary, Lithuania, Spain, Italy, Egypt, Bangladesh, India, Palestine, Syria, Slovakia and Slovenia.

The Museum of Moscow will host the photo exhibition from August 31 to September 11. Admission is free.

"We remember and appreciate the photos because there is a person and a personality behind the camera, which made them. A great photographer is able go beyond the reality and not just reproduce it. A good photographer is capable of reaching hidden worlds, having overcome all obstacles," Ruth Eichhorn, director of photography at the German magazine GEO and a contest jury member, said.

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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.

This year the contest had a record-breaking international reach, featuring photographers from 71 countries and from all five continents.

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, the state Mexican news agency Notimex, broadcaster RT, The Royal Photographic Society, Shanghai United Media Group (SUMG), China's Xinhua news agency, South Africa's Independent Media, Indonesia's ANTARA Foto press photo agency.

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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.

The international photo contest was first organized in December 2014 in memory of Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency special photo correspondent Andrei Stenin who was killed in the Donetsk Region of eastern Ukrainian on August 6, 2014, when the car he was driving while on an editorial assignment was shot and burned on a highway.

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