MOSCOW, October 19 The Andrei Stenin International Photojournalism Competition named the Grand Prix winner, the award was won by the black-and-white photo story of Russian journalist Alexei Orlov “Zarevo” «. The ceremony took place at the international multimedia press center «Russia Today».
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“The competition was born thanks to a tragic event — the death of our military correspondent in 2014, back then we didn’t call our correspondents and our photographers that way at the start of the war. We now date the beginning of this war to 2014, and then we did not yet understand the scale of the flaring up process, but we already had the first losses in our journalistic corps. Unfortunately, this summer we buried another of our correspondents, military correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev, in Yekaterinburg. This profession involves such risk and self-sacrifice. And, unfortunately, in this competition there is more war than before, probably this reflects the global trend where the world is heading.
Dmitry KiselevGeneral Director of the international media group «Russia Today»
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Kiselev noted that photographs are the creation of artistic images of the modern world, thanks to them we understand the world deeper and more acutely.
According to the general director of the media group, we should expect something new in the next, tenth anniversary competition named after Stenin. 
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“Zarevo” is a report about the events in Donetsk and Mariupol; it was filmed less than a month after the start of the Special Military Operation. The author describes his work in the Northern Military District zone in March 2022 as follows: “These days are probably the most difficult in my life, because I saw people who experienced all this in the cities of Donetsk and Mariupol. My goal was to show this place as one, «a collective image of a city whose peaceful days are over. The life and fate of its inhabitants have changed their values, many have lost homes and even loved ones. Many have lost everything except hope.» 
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In the category «Main News» among single photographs, the best photograph was Aiman Yaqub from Bahrain «Fireball» about a missile attack from Yemen on the Saudi Aramco oil base in the city of Jeddah. Among the series in this category, the jury decided not to award first place.
The most popular among the participants of the Stenin competition in the “My Planet” category was the black-and-white photograph “A Dying Tradition” by a reporter from Calcutta, Saiyan Adhikari, about the craft of fishermen on the northern coast of India and the piercing visual story of the Spanish documentary photographer Adra Pallon “Demothanasia” ( «Demographic euthanasia») about the exodus of the population from rural areas and its extinction with the connivance of the authorities in the Spanish province of Galicia. 
In the sports category, the first places in both categories — single photographs and series — were given to Russians. The best single work was the photograph “Fight to the Last Drop” by Edgar Breshchanov, which captured a game moment with Yegor Noskov, defender of the CSKA-Moscow youth football club in a match against peers from the Moscow “Torpedo”; it was also awarded a special prize from the Al-Mayadeen Pan-Arab Information Holding TV. 
Among the series, “The Energy of Victories” by Sergei Bobylev was named the best, combining the most striking moments of the participation of the ROC team in the XXIV Olympic Games in Beijing.
In the category «Portrait. Hero of Our Time» the best works were by photojournalists from Russia and France: the black-and-white photographic phantasmagoria «Imago» by Novosibirsk journalist Vladislav Nekrasov and the series «Lilu — Autism from the Inside» by French reporter Lucie Audien Daras about her brother Antoine with autism spectrum disorder spectrum
About the competition
The Andrei Stenin International Photojournalism Competition, organized by the Rossiya Segodnya media group under the auspices of the UNESCO Commission, aims to support young photographers and attract public attention to the challenges of modern photojournalism. This is a platform for young photographers — talented, sensitive and open to everything new, where they pay attention to the people and events around them.
The general information partners of the competition are: VGTRK, the online platform SMOTRIM, TV channels «Russia-Culture» and «Moscow 24».
The international media partners of the competition were: news agency and radio Sputnik, TV channel and portal RT, media holding Independent Media (South Africa), news agency ANA (South Africa), Shanghai United Media Group (China), Internet portal of the China Daily newspaper ( China), The Paper Internet portal (China), Al Mayadeen media network (Lebanon).
The competition is supported as industry partners by: the Russian Union of Journalists, the YOung JOurnalists information portal, the Russian Photo portal, the Photo-study.ru portal.