Friday 22 / August / 2025
Sharjah: Over 30 works by the winners of the 2022 Andrei Stenin Press Photo Contest are on display at the Xposure International Photography Festival, which opened on Thursday in Sharjah (UAE). Taking part in the opening ceremony was His Highness Sheikh Sultan Bin Ahmed Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah & Chairman of Sharjah, Government Media Bureau.
This is the first time the contest’s road show has come to the UAE. Single photos and series by the best young photographers from Iran, Syria, Egypt, India, China, Russia, Bangladesh and other countries can be seen until February 15 at the emirates’ main exhibition venue, the Expo Centre Sharjah. The expo centre will be holding a total of 68 exhibitions at the same time as the festival.
“It is a great honour for the Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest to present its winning works at the region’s largest photography event: Xposure International Photography Festival. Young photographers from the Arab world are among the most active participants in our contest; they have won it many times. We hope that Arab photojournalists’ interest in our contest will only grow, thanks to this exhibition as well,” Oksana Oleinik, curator of the Stenin Contest, said about the exhibition in Sharjah.
Before the UAE, the road show, which kicked off in Moscow in October 2022, made a stop in Pretoria (South Africa). The contest also plans to hold exhibitions in other cities of the world, including in Southeast Asian and Latin American countries, with the support of its international
partners.
As per tradition, the call for entries for the 2023 contest opened on December 22, Andrei Stenin’s birthday. Applications can be submitted in Russian, English and Chinese on the contest website through February 28.
