Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads Photo Contest 11 April – 15 July 2018
The international selection committee is composed of six members and one chairperson who is elected by the selection committee. It also includes a representative of the UNESCO
Director General.
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Farzana Wahidy
Photojournalist, Afghanistan -
Mike Davis
Photographer, Photographer, United States -
Guo Jing
Photographer and Curator, China -
Neo Ntsoma
Independent Photojournalist, South Africa -
Osama Silwadi
Photojournalist, PalestineOsama Silwadi is a Palestinian photojournalist who documents ongoing violence and conflict. At the age of nineteen, he began working as a freelance photojournalist for local newspapers, subsequently working for Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Reuters. Moreover, he was a permanent correspondent in Palestine for the GAMMA photography agency, and a Consultant at the Yasser Arafat Foundation. Siwaldi believes in using photography as a vehicle in which to archive Palestinian visual history. Furthermore, he prioritises the photography’s broader importance by documenting significant events. -
Sylvie Brieu
Journalist, Author and Lecturer, France
أتشرف باختياري من قبل UNESCO# منظمة الأمم المتحدة للتربية و الثقافة والعلوم يونسكو و RezaVisualAcdemy# لأكون من ضمن لجنة دولية لتحيكم مسابقة التصوير ” عيون الشباب على طريق الحرير” Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads Photo Contest إلى جانب خبراء من امريكا وفرنسا وجنوب افريقيا والصين وافغانستان، وكنت أنا العربي الوحيد في اللجنة . أرجو للجميع مشاركة طيبة ونجاح .
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UNESCO Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads photo contest offers young participants an international, virtual space to express a common heritage of the Silk Roads. Submissions should accurately reflect the theme, “Reveal the Silk Roads”, through representations of culture, monuments, landscape, and peop…