Alexandria Hosts Images Competitors on Sunken Treasures

Running till August tenth, the competition provides a platform for creatives to showcase the fantastic thing about Alexandria’s recovered Mediterranean treasures, with winners to be introduced later within the month.

The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has launched a images competitors centred on underwater discoveries raised from Egypt’s Mediterranean seabed. The contest invitations photographers to seize artefacts recovered from historical shipwrecks and now exhibited at both the Graeco-Roman Museum or the Alexandria National Museum.

The competitors is open to photographers from Egypt and overseas, with entries accepted any time in the course of the museums’ opening hours till August tenth. To take part, candidates should submit their chosen {photograph} together with a quick CV to [email protected] by Thursday, August 14th.

Entries might be judged by a panel comprising college professors and specialists in images and archaeology, beneath the steering of the competitors’s technical committee. Judging standards will embrace inventive advantage, consideration to visible element, and the flexibility to convey the distinctive character of the artefacts.

Winners might be introduced on Monday, August 18th, with prizes awarded at an official ceremony on August twenty first.
While centered on artistic expression, the competitors varieties a part of a broader effort to share Egypt’s submerged heritage with the general public. From bronze statues to temple fragments, these underwater finds – many invisible till the late twentieth century – are a rising a part of Alexandria’s cultural narrative.