Middle East and Africa Photographers shine at HUAWEI NEXT IMAGE Awards
TDT | Manama
The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com
The HUAWEI NEXT IMAGE Awards 2022, an annual smartphone photography competition, concluded on December 30th with 54 winning works, including three Grand Prize Winners, 24 Best-in-Category Winners, and 27 Runner-up Winners.
The competition, which began on August 1st, 2022, awarded seven winners from the Middle East and Africa region.
Among the prize-winning works were submissions from amateur photographers such as students, doctors, and engineers.
Four photographers from the MEA region won the Best-in-Category award, and two were runner-up winners.
The Storyboard category winner is Mark Anthony Agtay from the UAE, whose series of nine photographs captures the diverse ways people use their hands in everyday life.
In the Portrait category, the runner-up winner is a photograph by Junaid Jafar from the UAE, and the runner-up winner in the Sport category is Christopher C. Comeso, also from the UAE.
A best-in-category winner in Sport is an anonymous entry from Saudi Arabia. A runner-up winner in the Hello Life category was a photo taken in the Al Mubarakiya market in Kuwait City.
The Dyehouse by Hossam Hassan Al Sayed Ahmed Sewalam from Egypt was chosen as the best Storytelling Short Film.
Kalenga Nkonge from Zambia won the best Portrait award. The competition featured nine categories: Art & Fashion, Outdoor, Portrait, Sport, Hello Life, Storyboard, Action, Storytelling Short Film, and Storytelling Long Film, with Best-in-Category and Runner-up Winners selected for each.
Three works, “FORCE” by Adão Filipe Fernandes Salgado, “Just Shaen” by Enrica Brescia, and “Fireworks” by Wang Zihao, received universal recognition from the international judging panel and were awarded Grand Prize Wins of $10,000 USD each.
Each of the 24 Best-in-Category Winners will receive a $1,500 USD NEXT IMAGE Creative Fund prize, and each of the 27 Runner-up Winners will receive a HUAWEI P50 Pro.
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