Addis Ababa, January 22, 2024 (FBC) – The Russian Center for Science and Culture organized the Andrei Stenin Press Photo Contest exhibition in Addis Ababa for the first time. The exhibition will be open to the public until 10 February 2024.
“In a memory of a Russian journalist Andrei Stenin we are opening today an exhibition of the best Contest’s work in Addis Ababa. I’m sure that visitors will enjoy the masterpieces of modern photography here. We hope that the next year we will see Ethiopian works not only among the participants but among the winners of this renowned competition,” Russia’s Ambassador to Addis Ababa, Yevgeny Terekhin, said at the opening ceremony of the exhibition.
The exhibition includes reportage shots and series, sports and ethnographic sketches, urban landscapes and portraits by young photojournalists from Russia, China, India, Bangladesh, Spain, Iran, France, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Bahrain and other countries.
“Photojournalists from the countries of the African continent are among the most active participants of the competition, they have repeatedly won in its nominations. We hope that the interest in our site will only grow, both in Ethiopia and in other African countries. We are looking forward to work on the tenth anniversary of the contest, which traditionally begins on December 22, the birthday of our colleague and Rossiya Segodnya photojournalist Andrei Stenin,” Kristina Lyakh, the head of the Directorate of International Cooperation, said.