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.
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.
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.
