The exhibition at the Capital Hotel School in South Africa’s administrative capital, organized with the support of the Russian Embassy in South Africa, presents several dozen images that won this year’s event.
The 2023 touring exhibition of winning photos from the Andrei Stenin Press Photo Contest, Pretoria, South Africa
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Among them are single photographs and series by the best young photojournalists from China, Bangladesh, Russia, Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Iran and other countries. The Pretoria exhibition will run until October 27; admission is free.
Russian Ambassador to South Africa Ilya Rogachev noted at the opening ceremony: “Throughout the years, South Africa has been a constant stop of the Andrei Stenin Contest winning works' roadshow and I am delighted that this year Pretoria is the first city to host the exhibition."
"Photographers from South Africa won the competition four times before and I hope that in 2024, we will also see them among the winners of 10th Andrei Stenin Contest,” the ambassador added.
Russian Ambassador to South Africa Ilya Rogachev at the opening ceremony of the 2023 touring exhibition of winning photos from the Andrei Stenin Press Photo Contest, Pretoria, South Africa
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The roadmap of the Andrei Stenin Contest Roadshow will include stops in several cities around the world. As the touring exhibition was launched in a traditional ceremony in Moscow, the organizers announced plans to hold events at gallery venues in India and the UAE.