Bangladesh: Photo contest

What Happened

Inviting young talents from across Bangladesh, MasterPeace Club of Bangladesh organized an International Photo Contest 2017. 540 photographers submitted around 6008 photos to take part this competition under 5 different themes: Peace in General, Open color, Nature, People, and Social Co-existence.

Jury board comprised of Merijn Roubroeks. Mirjam: Honoured, photographers from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Fakhrul Islam, and Manjur Babu from Bangladesh selected 60 photos from 37 participants for exhibition and grand award. Among the photos 3 photographs were selected for grand prizes.

Following the ‘Award Ceremony’ and two Exhibitions of the selected photographs attended by 540 Participants+ 100 Guest

Impact

Giving a chance to thousands of young talented Bangladeshis to shine light on their photos.
Creating community of photographers for peace connected to each others and to professional photographers globally.
Kick start the career of some of these photographers.
Next Steps
The club can use this pool of photographers to support the club’s activities.
Small fund from the MasterPeace team to these photographers to sell their artwork and give back to MasterPeace activities
The young photographers will give classes to some amateur photographers as part of MasterPeace activities.