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The occasion was co-hosted by Project Initiators Ms. Faye Lo and Mr. Na Risong. At the opening, Mr. Na,  Artistic Director and Curator of Inter Art Center/Gallery, defined the intention behind launching the competitors and emphasised the significance of offering a platform for younger pictures lovers globally. Subsequently, Project Initiator Ms Faye Lo, Founder of Singapore Good Soil Foundation, and Project Co-Initiator Mr. Zack Cao additionally took the stage to ship their speeches, sharing their hopes for younger folks to precise themselves by pictures and the Foundation’s dedication to selling the event of the humanities for teens.

The occasion introduced collectively main figures from the worlds of pictures and tradition, together with famend photographers Zhu Xianmin, Wang Wenlan, He Yanguang, Xie Hailong, Ren Shulin, Guo Jianshe, Shang Junyi, Hei Ming, Zhang Xulong, Liu Li, Jia Yong, and Zhang Chunyu; Media skilled Yang Lang; Professors Zhu Jiong and Jiating from the Beijing Film Academy School of Image Media and Communication; Deputy Editor-in-Chief of China Photography Journal Chai Xuan; Editor-in-Chief of ImageChina Net Cao Xu; Editorial Director of Popular Photography Li Xin; Editor-in-Chief of Photo Friend Liu Dong; China Photography editor Chen Qiushi; distinguished blogger Luo Dawei; younger photographer and Inter Art Center New Documentaries Prize winner Yang Wenbin; and Witnessing the Present award recipients Huang Anni, Qu Shizhe, and Cao Xuan. In addition, Liu Wenkui, Executive Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, Zhang Boju, Head of the Ginkgo Foundation, Wang Dong, Director of Beijing Stars and Rain Education Institute for Autism, Zheng Yanjun, Partner of KIP Capital and Ren Tao, CEO of Beijing Zhide Lingcheng Cultural Development Co. Ltd additionally attended the press convention.

Global Participation
Since its launch, the competitors has attracted widespread consideration and enthusiastic participation from younger folks throughout China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, France, the United States, and past. Contestants ranged in age from 15 to 22, with the youngest participant simply 15 years outdated.

The judging panel consisted of judges from all all over the world, comprising of Mr. Edmund Clark (Renowned British video artist and Postgraduate Tutor of Journalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (UAL) ), Mr. James Ramer (A Famous American Photographer, Curator and Professor at Parsons School of Design based mostly in New York and Founding Director of the MFA Photography Program), Mr. JY (Jiang Yi) (Renowned Japanese Artist, Doctor of Physics and Representative of the Tokyo School of Painting), Ms. Faye Lo (Founder of the Singapore Good Soil Foundation) and Mr. Na Risong (Artistic Director and Curator of the Inter Art Center/Gallery).

Award Winners
After ultimate deliberation by the 5 judges, the highest three awards went to:

• First Prize: Traces of Light by Chen Beiting (Guilin University of Technology)
• Second Prize: Where the Light Ends by Chen Yumeng (Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts)
• Third Prize (tie): Butterfly Prison by Huang Anni (Beijing City University) and Winter Veins by Li Yuxiang (Guangxi Arts University)

Selected Award-Winning Works
The following showcase chosen items from the profitable works.
For the total showcase of profitable works, please click on here

Chen Beiting – Traces of Light (First Prize)

Since transferring to Guilin for college, I’ve solely been in a position to return dwelling as soon as each six months. As I get older, reminiscences of the previous step by step resurface in my thoughts, however they arrive again in fragments. Certain scenes that when moved me proceed to stir one thing inside me. The distance of a thousand miles has made me mirror extra deeply on the that means of dwelling and household in my life.

My photographic collection Traces of Light makes use of reminiscence as its vessel. I revisit locations that when held these reminiscences, searching for traces of time, layering remembered fragments over present-day scenes. In my recollections, these magical objects typically glow, like little time machines guiding us towards the present of time’s circulation, carrying us again to the hometowns of our reminiscence.

Chen Yumeng – Where the Light Ends (Second Prize)

My visible pocket book stitches collectively the folds of life by fractured views, bringing again on a regular basis fragments, weathered by time, into focus. Within these small, wayward levels, the dysfunction of objects and the poetics of dwelling merge in a dance of entanglement. As existence itself turns into the creating fluid, every fleeting second expands within the darkroom, branching into nebula-like roots of narrative.

Huang Anni – Butterfly Prison (Third Prize) [Tie]

I’m an individual with delicate feelings and powerful empathy, but additionally energetic and cheerful by nature. Growing up immersed in Lingnan tradition, nonetheless, my life has been formed by the fixed pull between custom and modernity. In Guangdong’s clan-based tradition—just like the sprawling roots of a towering tree—custom permeates day by day life: girls’s names are not often recorded in ancestral tablets, my mom busied herself within the kitchen throughout festivals whereas males carried out the rituals, and conversations about granddaughters inevitably circled again to marriage. Though my circle of relatives is comparatively egalitarian, I nonetheless really feel the load of those unstated guidelines throughout every vacation gathering. Many of my feminine buddies proceed to be formed by such norms, typically missing self-confidence, or creating a people-pleasing disposition. Through my pictures, I hope to encourage and encourage them to interrupt free from these constraints, to construct confidence, and to stay past the boundaries imposed by custom.

The artistic course of itself has additionally been a journey of self-growth. In shaping feminine figures inside my work, I sought to convey a core concept: womanhood shouldn’t be merely a gender, however a situation. It is a refusal to stay underneath the gaze of gender, to reject objectification, and to withstand the disgrace and expectations imposed on girls’s our bodies right this moment. In the age of social media, the feminine physique has grow to be a consumable picture—what needs to be wholesome and pure is as an alternative distorted right into a “perfect figure.”

The butterfly, a creature typically symbolizing rebirth and freedom, grew to become a central motif all through my collection. Beyond being a putting visible aspect, it serves as an emblem carrying my deep craving for liberation and renewal.

Li Yuxiang – Yu Hui (Third Prize)

Yu Hui is a photograph collection I created in 2024, documenting my nephew. Living with him day in and day trip gave me the prospect to look at him carefully and actually get to know him.

He is a mischievous and energetic seven-year-old boy, nicely cared for and guarded by his dad and mom. Each day after waking, his biggest precedence is to play—freed from worries, freed from considerations. He finds countless fascination in issues I’d in any other case dismiss as meaningless: a bit of cardboard, or a pile of pesticide bottles, can preserve him fortunately engaged for hours.

From the skin, I watched him by my lens, capturing the dear qualities of childhood that shine so clearly in him. In his world there are not any slim confines, no constraints, solely openness and freedom.

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