Chargé d'Affaires of Russia to Bangladesh Ekaterina Semenova has presented the award to the first prize winner of Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest Mohammed Suman.
Suman is a photojournalist based in Chittagong, working at the Daily Kalbela newspaper. He has been a photographer for more than 10 years. It is the second time Mohammed Suman took part in the Andrei Stenin Contest.
His first prize winning photograph named ‘Children of Chittagong are playing on piles of dirt’ depicts a group of boys playing cricket on the site of drain renovation works, said the Russian Embassy in Dhaka.
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His other photograph titled ‘Praying in the Field’ received Jury Honorable Mention. The main character of the photo is a daily laborer praying amidst sandbags.
Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest is an annual contest named after a special photojournalist of Rossiya Segodnya media group, who died in southeastern Ukraine in August 2014.
The goal of the contest is to support young photographers aged from 18 to 33 in their pursuit of professional excellence. Every year talented professionals from different countries of the world, including Bangladesh, participate in the competition.