{"id":11683,"date":"2017-11-27T19:21:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T19:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2017-11-27T19:21:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T19:21:56","slug":"inspiring-in-europe-nigerian-swedish-photographer-cletus-nelson-nwadike-wins-2017-fried-award-camera-lens-captured-plea-for-right-of-migrants-to-escape-war-named-peace-photograph-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/inspiring-in-europe-nigerian-swedish-photographer-cletus-nelson-nwadike-wins-2017-fried-award-camera-lens-captured-plea-for-right-of-migrants-to-escape-war-named-peace-photograph-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":"INSPIRING IN EUROPE: NIGERIAN-Swedish Photographer, CLETUS NELSON NWADIKE WINS 2017 FRIED Award…Camera Lens’ Captured Plea for right of migrants to escape war named \u2018Peace Photograph of the Year *Receives a \u20ac10,000 prize to show peace is top priority for felicitous coexistence *International Press Institute, Austrian publishing house Lammerhuber gives warm congratulations * Austria\u2019s Parliament Celebrates and Name Nigerian Winner *Award Named after Austrian pacifist, author and 1911 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Alfred Hermann Fried, the Alfred Fried Photography Award * Organisers received 5,856 submissions containing 19,107 images from 165 countries BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU\/FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF, UNITED STATES"},"content":{"rendered":"

INSPIRING IN EUROPE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

NIGERIAN-Swedish Photographer, CLETUS NELSON NWADIKE WINS 2017 FRIED Award…Camera Lens’ Captured Plea for right of migrants to escape war named \u2018Peace Photograph of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

*Receives a \u20ac10,000 prize to show peace is top priority for felicitous coexistence<\/strong>
\n*International Press Institute, Austrian publishing house Lammerhuber gives warm congratulations <\/strong>
\n* Austria\u2019s Parliament Celebrates and Name Nigerian Winner<\/strong>
\n*Award Named after Austrian pacifist, author and 1911 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Alfred Hermann Fried, the Alfred Fried Photography Award <\/strong>
\n* Organisers received 5,856 submissions containing 19,107 images from 165 countries<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Alfred Fried Photography Award 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU\/FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF, UNITED STATES<\/strong><\/p>\n

HE’S A ORIGINALLY A NIGERIAN, who later Naturalized as a Swedish. Highly intelligent, creative and talented. He strongly believes in the power of camera lens in creative photography. CLETUS NELSON NWADIKE hugely wins the highly coveted trophy of 2017 Fried Award.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the ceremony, the International Press Institute (IPI) joined the Austrian publishing house Lammerhuber in warmly congratulating Swedish-Nigerian photographer Nwadike being winner of the 2017 Alfred Fried Photography Award for peace photography.This year\u2019s winners of the international award were named recently at a ceremony held by Austria\u2019s Parliament.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The honor named after Austrian pacifist, author and 1911 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Alfred Hermann Fried, the Alfred Fried Photography Award recognises the year\u2019s best photograph signifying the theme of peace. The award, which carries a \u20ac10,000 prize draws attention to those images in order \u201cto remind us that peace is a top priority for felicitous coexistence\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the records, Nwadike, who settled in Sweden after leaving his home country of Nigeria, where a civil war that left some two million people dead was raging, won the main prize with his photo essay \u201cPeace is the greatest thing!\u201d celebrating the liberation from violence and the joy of living in peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n

United States photographer Jonathan Bachman won the award for single entry photo of the year for his picture of a woman peacefully demonstrating at an anti-racist rally in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Twelve-year-old Lina Momsen from Hamburg won the prize for best peace picture in the category of children and youth for a photo symbolising the importance of friendship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

IPI Executive Director Barbara Trionfi, speaking at the ceremony, highlighted the dangers that journalists, photojournalists and videographers face. Noting that at least 108 journalists had lost their lives over the preceding year, many under circumstances that suggested their deaths were linked to their work, \u201cAs journalists are increasingly killed and imprisoned around the world, and as \u2018fake news\u2019 and other malicious efforts to deceive audiences and undermine democracy proliferate, giving people accurate information on their world, showing them not only conflict and strife and destruction, but also efforts to rise above that, has perhaps never been more important than today.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trionfi also cited the impact of an increasing number of journalists behind bars around the world, including some 172 in Turkey alone, \u201cLike many today in Turkey, these journalists are arbitrarily detained for lengthy periods on flimsy accusations, without conviction or sometimes even trial, amid ebbing hopes that they will ever receive due process.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Delivering a keynote address, Liv T\u00f8rres, director of the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, recalled the award\u2019s namesake and noted that peace is harder to win than war. T\u00f8rres said this fact was why measures of peace-building should be discussed in a dialogue in which photography also plays an important role, adding that photography was an international language that can \u201ctouch souls\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The award jury recognised three additional photographers: Zongren Xing from China for \u201cAlive happily, alive strongly\u201d, Carla Kogelman of the Netherlands for \u201cNew sisters\u201d and French photographer Yoann Cimier of Tunisia for \u201cNomad\u2019s land\u201d. All were presented with the Alfred Fried Photography Award Medal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The award was established in 2013 by the \u00d6sterreichische Photographische Gesellschaft and the Austrian publishing house Lammerhuber. It is given annually in partnership with IPI, UNESCO, the Austrian Parliament and the Austrian Parliamentary Reporting Association.This year, organisers received 5,856 submissions containing 19,107 images from 165 countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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