Plan UK presents Shoot Nations - a global photography project for young people aged 11 to 25.
2010 SHOOT NATIONS WINNERS ANNOUNCED
The winners of this year's Shoot Nations competition are announced below!
Click on the individual names to view the winning photos:
All ages:
Best Overall Photo Worldwide: Lazar Bogdanovic, 24, Serbia
Best Overall Photo UK: Emily Rycroft, 15, England
Best Drawing: Maria Protasenko 18, Russia
Ages 11 to 16
Brief 1, 'What does 'city' mean to you?' winner: Janice Paglinawan, 15, Vietnam
Brief 2, 'City living as a boy or a girl' winner: Daena Teng, 15, Vietnam
Brief 3, 'Country to city, city to country - people on the move' winner: Elisaveta Kusnezova, 15, Russia
Ages 17 to 25
Brief 1, 'What does 'city' mean to you?' winner: Marija Sajekaitƒó, 19, Lithuania
Brief 2, 'City living as a boy or a girl' winner: Zabir Hasan, 21, Bangladesh
Brief 3, 'Country to city, city to country - people on the move' winner: Cosmin Racianu, 23, Romania
View the commended photos from the competition.
Shoot Nations 2010 Lightbox installation
Photos have also been selected for the 2010 Lightbox - a selection of 48 photos from the three briefs, collated into an A0 lightbox installation and presented to the UN on International Youth Day.
Come and see selected photos at the London exhibition!
Shoot Nations 2010 exhibition
At Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, East London
29 September - 10 October 2010
All Shoot Nations 2010 entrants are invited to the exhibition launch on Wednesday 29 September, 6 - 9pm.
Many thanks to our panel of judges:
• Jenny Matthews, award winning photographer
• Sophie Batterbury, picture editor of The Independent on Sunday
• Mauricio Rodríguez Múnera, ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom
• Brett Jefferson Stott, director of Shoot Experience
• George Anang'a, development education, Plan UK
Check the exhibitions page for exhibitions and workshops happening around the world.
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Shoot Nations is an annual, global photography project including a competition, workshops and exhibitions on various continents. Each year focusses on a different global issue and the photographs produced are presented to the United Nations in New York. The theme for this year's competition is CITY LIVING.
It doesn’t matter what sort of camera you have; phone camera, high-end digital, point-and-shoot - it’s your view of what city life is like that we are after. This year we want young people the world over to address the challenges of an increasingly urban world. Whether living in the country, town or big city, we want to build a global picture of what urban environments mean to young people. Are the streets paved with gold? Or are they fraught with risk and difficulty? And how do the challenges of growing up in the city differ as a boy or a girl? The competition will also focus on the movement and impact on the people and places left behind.
The photos will provide a vivid illustration of young people's differing viewpoints on the subject from all over the world.
THE BRIEFS: Submit three photographs (or drawings), one to capture each of the following ideas:
1. What does 'city' mean to you?
2. Growing up in the city as a boy or a girl
3. Country to city, city to country - people on the move
The competition is open from Friday 21 May — Wednesday 28 July 2010
Upload your entries for the chance to win great prizes and be exhibited - Shoot Nations 2010 will include photography exhibitions and workshops in six cities worldwide.
The competition is open to anyone aged 11 — 25 from anywhere in the world and has so far received over 5,000 entries from over 100 countries. Tens of thousands of people have visited exhibitions of Shoot Nations photographs on four different continents including at the UN in NYC, Oxo Tower in London and the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool — help us make this year even bigger and better!
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Photo right:
Monika Urbutyte, 17, Lithuania
Best Overall Photo Worldwide 2009
"All the taboos and society's adverse attitudes are holding me back"
Be inspired by the winning photos from last year's competition - VIEW 2009 WINNERS
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'Shoot Nations enables the opinions, ideas and insights of young people, whatever language they speak, however rich or poor they are, and wherever they live, to be represented at the highest levels of government.'
Sharon Goulds, Plan International
