Album includes striking images from 2015 and 2016 that won prizes at recently-held Istanbul Photo Awards 2016
Anadolu Agency has published images from 2015 and 2016 that created an impression in the world as part of its Istanbul Photo Awards 2016 album.
The album includes outstanding images selected as winners in the Istanbul Photo Awards 2016.
Russian photojournalist Sergey Ponomarev’s image, which captured the struggle of Syrian refugees for The New York Times, made it to the album's cover.
Ponomarev’s photograph had won an award in the Single News category at the Istanbul Photo Awards and later also won the Pulitzer Prize this year.
An exhibition of pictures featured at Istanbul Photo Awards 2016 is also planned in the Austrian capital Vienna, the headquarters of the United Nations in New York and Iran after similar shows in Ankara and Istanbul.
The photos in the competition had been judged in four categories: News Single, News Story, Sports Single, and Sports Story by a jury of international professionals in Istanbul on March 18-21, 2016.
The Istanbul Photo Awards also succeeded in drawing global attention to recent developments in the Middle East.
A jury of international professionals had selected the winning photographs; Turkish Airlines was the official airline sponsor of the contest.
A powerful image showing a deep well of emotion in the eyes of a wounded boy, encapsulating the horror of the last several years in Syria, taken by Syrian photographer Abd Doumany for the AFP was chosen as Photo of the Year 2016 by an international jury of the Istanbul Photo Awards 2016.
The album can be viewed at the competition’s website "www.istanbulphotoawards.com"
Show brings together images depicting key events of 2015 that featured in international contest
An exhibition of photographs from Anadolu Agency’s Istanbul Photo Awards 2016 opens Thursday.
The exhibition from June 2 to 26 at the Istanbul Photography Museum features key events from the previous year, including the work of photographer Abd Doumany, whose image of an injured Syrian boy was chosen as Photo of the Year by the international jury.
Also on display will be the work of Sergey Ponomarev, who captured images of refugees for The New York Times that won the Single News category and later a Pulitzer Prize.
Images by prize winners Santi Palacios, Ian MacNicol, Valery Sharifulin and Minzayar Oo will also be on show.
The exhibition is sponsored by Turkish Airlines and supported by the Turkish Prime Ministry Promotion Fund.
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Show brings together images depicting key events of 2015 that featured in international content
An exhibition of photographs from Anadolu Agency’s Istanbul Photo Awards 2016 opens Thursday.
The exhibition from June 2 to 26 at the Istanbul Photo Museum in Fatih district features key events from the previous year, including the work of photographer Abd Doumany, whose image of an injured Syrian boy was chosen as Photo of the Year by the international jury.
Also on display will be the work of Sergey Ponomarev, who captured images of refugees for The New York Times that won the Single News category and later a Pulitzer Prize.
Images by prize winners Santi Palacios, Ian MacNicol, Valery Sharifulin and Minzayar Oo will also be on show.
A total of 13,000 applications had been accepted for the Istanbul Photo Awards 2016.
Turkish Airlines is the contest’s official sponsor and the Promotion Fund ofthe Turkish Prime Ministry and the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency also support the event.
Istanbul Photo Awards winner recalls story behind harrowing photo of refugees arriving on Greek island
Russian photojournalist Sergey Ponomarev had been waiting for five months before he photographed a group refugees desperately jumping off a boat having reached the Greek island of Lesbos.
That image from November last year later won an award at the 2016 Istanbul Photo Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for depicting the worst refugee and migrant crisis facing Europe since World War II.
In an interview with Anadolu Agency in Istanbul on Wednesday, 35-year-old Ponomarev said policemen were waiting for the boat, which was being driven by the smuggler himself.
"Once the smuggler saw the police he tried to withdraw…retreat from the shore and people started to jump [into] the water," Ponomarev said.
"I captured exactly that moment when people are throwing their possessions, their clothes to the shore and trying to get out of the boat as fast as they can because they felt the boat was retreating from the island," Ponomarev added.
The Moscow native said the weather conditions were rough around the time the photo was taken and that crossing the sea with a rubber boat was very dangerous for the refugees.
"Some of the refugees decided to find a wooden boat or the smugglers found some more reliable vessels for them," he said.
Ponomarev said he witnessed how riot police at border crossings did not have the experience to deal with refugees and children.
"The policeman who had to deal with refugees were mostly [trained] to deal with soccer fans, hooligans, they were riot police," he said.
"They had no experience to deal with refugees, with women and kids and exhausted men who had to walk for hours; we, as journalists, witnessed that and tried to depict those problems," Ponomarev added.
Anadolu Agency Istanbul Photo Award winner recounts story behind hard-hitting images of refugee crisis
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Sergey Ponomarev has told Anadolu Agency the story behind his world-famous images which have captured Europe’s refugee crisis.
Speaking in Moscow, Ponomarev – who won this year’s Single News category Photo of the Year at Anadolu Agency’s Istanbul Photo Awards – recalled the moment Syrian refugees were trying to set foot on the Greek island of Lesbos.
“The weather was bad, the wind was strong and the waves were extreme. The boat approached the island where the sea was deep.
“As refugees jumped into the sea, the captain was maneuvering to find shallow water. I pressed the shutter while some refugees were in the sea while some others were preparing to jump into the sea. It was dramatic,” Ponomarev said.
Ponomarev’s images formed part of international coverage which earned a Pulitzer last month.
Over the past year, thousands of people have made short-but-perilous attempts to cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey in a bid to reach Greece, before going on to northern and Western Europe.
Ponomarev said he was not thinking about if he would win an award for his image.
“I took at least a thousand images for this story. … This photo was the beginning of a story; that’s why it drew attention,” he said.
The Russian photographer said he spent two months in the area where he captured the award-winning image.
“In the beginning, we waited for three days for a single boat. Later, five boats approached the island in a day. We were travelling between shores to capture these moments,” Ponomarev said.