Winners of the Andrey Stenin International Photojournalism Competition

From August 31 to September 11, 2016 MIA "Russia Today" will acquaint Muscovites and guests of the capital with the works of the finalists of the Andrey Stenin International photojournalism competition at the site of the Museum of Moscow. The exhibition includes more than 200 works by winners from Russia and China, Hungary and Lithuania, Spain and Italy, Egypt and Bangladesh, India, Palestine and Syria, Slovakia and Slovenia.

At the exhibition, visitors will be able to get acquainted with the life of a village school; learn about the Khingan Reserve, where Daurian and Japanese cranes are bred, which are listed in the Red Book; see episodes of celebrating Jewish holidays; try to find differences between the real Kim Jong-un and a professional artist parodying him; learn about the life of a famous Russian lioness and tiger trainer; see stories of people who went through the war, and their adaptations upon returning home, as well as see other stories and events. Admission to the exhibition is free.

(20 photos in total)

Jewish holidays.

Orthodox Jews pray in front of the Wailing Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem after the celebration of Yom Kippur, September 23, 2015.

Author: Rui Li, Country: China.

A living village.

Description: residential building in the Omsk region.

Author: Alexey Malgavko, country: Russia.

South Sudan: from war to life.

Description: cattle owners are half nomads. The war affected their lives, limiting their ability to move in the bush. In addition, other problems have arisen — for example, cows have become an easy target for soldiers looking for fresh meat. These people sprinkle themselves with ashes as decoration. More than 100,000 people fled here because of the civil war that began in December.

Author: Alessandro Rota, country: Italy.

Village school.

Description: village school, which dates back to 1884. A place where you stop feeling time. The faces of the students, their clothes, carved doors and the rustic landscape behind large windows with wooden frames form a surprisingly sincere, romantic image of something passing away and truly beautiful.

Author: Oleg Ponomarev, country: Russia.

Lake.

Description: Nadezhda has just opened an aviary where young cranes are kept. Young cranes move freely throughout the daylight hours, and sometimes fly away for a short time. Only at night they are locked in an aviary.

Author: Mikhail Domozhilov, country: Russia.

Flight.

Description: backflip performed by a local tracer. The guys train almost every day and jump in many points of the city. Against the background, one of the main attractions of Solvychegodsk is the Annunciation Cathedral.

Author: Anton Unitsyn, country: Russia.

White silence.

Description: this story is about people who are not ready to exchange their freedom, even under difficult conditions, for something else.

Author: Dmitry Tkachuk, country: Russia.

Bearish angle.

Description: it is one of the tributaries of the Lower Tunguska River. Time is a little frozen here, as in suspended animation, but it changes a little, preserving the basic traditions of hunting, fishing and the peculiarities of survival in isolation.

Author: Elena Anosova, country: Russia.

Suvorovtsy.

Description: Mikhail Yakovlev, 11 years old, Moscow, 3rd company, 3rd platoon.

Author: Pavel Volkov, country: Russia.

Algae collectors.

Description: a collector of mokocho algae, also known as "kochayuyo", in the Peruvian city of Pacasmayo.

Author: Berta Tilmantaite, country: Lithuania.

Letizia, the story of an invisible life.

Description: lack of oxygen during birth caused cerebral palsy. She has spastic quadriplegia. When she was five years old, the family moved closer to Rome to provide her with modern treatment. She needs a wheelchair, she can't speak and control her body. Best of all, she controls her head.

Author: Danilo Garcia Di Meo, country: Italy.

Moscow.

Description: one of the first rehearsals in the Moscow tent.

Author: Mikhail Domozhilov, country: Russia.

Confrontation.

Description: Martina Batini (Italy) in the final match at the women's team foil fencing competition at the World Championships in Moscow.

Author: Alexey Filippov, country: Russia.

The 2015 World Aquatics Championships. Jumping into the water.

Author: Alexey Malgavko, country: Russia.

Olympic Reserve School.

Description: this series was filmed mainly in the spring-summer of 2012 during the everyday training of teenagers in the schools of the Olympic reserve of Sochi, Moscow and Yekaterinburg. The last shots were taken in 2015.

Author: Yulia Abzaltdinova, country: Russia.

Weightlessness.

Description: Maria Paseka (Russia) performs exercises on uneven bars in the women's team all-around at the World Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow.

Author: Vladimir Astapkovich, country: Russia.

Berkasovo, Serbia.

Author: Balash Beli, country: Hungary.

The queue for registration.

Description: A refugee child, covered with a raincoat from the rain, stands in line for registration at the Presevo refugee camp. Most of the refugees who have come to Serbia are trying to continue their journey to Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia and other EU countries.

Author: Matic Zorman, country: Slovenia.

Knights.

Description: "Ultras — White Knights", fans of the Zamalek football club celebrate the victory in the league championship with flyers and flags.

Author: Gehad Hamdi, country: Egypt.

Fleeing from death.

Description: A man with a child in his arms escapes from shelling by government troops in Idlib, Syria, after being captured by rebels, April 5, 2015.

Author: Ammar Abdullah, country: Syria.

Jury member of the Andrey Stenin International Photojournalism Competition Ruth Eichhorn noted: "We remember and appreciate the pictures, because behind the camera with which they were taken, there is a person and a personality. A great photographer can transcend reality, not just reproduce it. A good photographer can reach the hidden worlds by overcoming all obstacles."

Photojournalists are always close to their heroes, whom they captured in pictures, sometimes risking their lives to show the truth in their photo reports, their view of events or to see the price of a sports victory. The contest, organized by MIA "Russia Today", aims to support young photographers and attract public attention to the challenges of modern photojournalism.

The Andrey Stenin International Photojournalism Competition is the only platform in Russia where the international photo community discovers new names in photojournalism, maintains and develops its high standards, and forms criteria for the quality of documentary photography in Russia and the world.

In 2016, the contest became the largest platform for photo contests of young photographers, collecting about 6,000 works from 71 countries of the world, including Russia. The international geography of the competition covers all five continents, including the countries of Europe, North and South America, Africa, the Middle East, India, Australia and Southeast Asia. The geography of its Russian participants is represented by the whole country — from Kaliningrad, Moscow and St. Petersburg to Vladivostok and Yalta.