The FCCT / OnAsia Photojournalism Contest has named the winners: photographer of the Year is Vlad Sokhin and winner under special category 'Migration' is James Robert Fuller (Burma to Buffalo).
The contest was the largest in its six-year history, attracting submissions from more than 375 photographers, a record, and over 6,000 images. Judges selected winners in four categories: Spot News, Feature Photography, Migration (a special category sponsored by the Delegation of the European Union to Thailand) and Photo Essay. In addition, the judges selected a Photographer of the Year, the contest's top prize.
Kicked off in 2007, the contest saw the rising volume of submissions and the continued high quality of images, which offers compelling evidence that photojournalism is alive and well in Asia, despite economic pressures in the international media industry that are making it harder for photojournalists to earn a living.
The FCCT said in a statement that the judges were highly pleased with the submissions for the Delegation of the European Union to Thailand's Migration category, a special category established this year focusing on issues related to migration in Asia, and the challenges faced by refugees and migrants as they embark on new and challenging lives far from their homes. The EU has sponsored similar special categories in past years focusing on the environment and human rights in Asia.
The category's winner, Chiang Mai-based photojournalist James Robert Fuller, submitted images from a long-term project following an ethnic Karen family as it resettles from Myanmar to the United States. According to Mr. Fuller, the project documented "the transition of identities within the family and their changing notions of 'home'" as they adjusted to their new lives abroad. The photo essay also arrived at a time when political reforms in Myanmar are changing the debate for many migrant families. Eligible for foreign citizenship, but encouraged by opposition leaders and others to return home, they are now presented with extremely difficult choices over how and where to build their futures. The judges praised the photos for taking viewers deep inside the daily lives of people whose fates are all too often forgotten by the wider world, showing first-hand their struggles, the opportunities that exist for them overseas, and the gravity of the dilemmas they face as they try to survive in a changing world. Providing such an in-depth look required intense dedication and hard work on the part of the photographer, who built up enough trust with his subjects to show them in some of their most intimate moments.
'We are delighted to support the FCCT/OnAsia photo contest for the third year in a row," said David Lipman, Head of the European Union to Thailand:. Every year we highlight a theme of particular interest. After 'human rights' and 'climate change' in past years, this year we have chosen to focus on migration, one of the important themes of our times. As part of the EU's external policy we have dialogue and cooperate on migration-related themes with countries outside the EU. Here in Thailand, we have supported the establishment of regional mechanisms that protect migrant children. We have also funded projects fighting against human trafficking and have organised workshops on matters related to migration. Regardless of their origin or legal status, the men and women generically referred to as "migrants" have basic human. It is the duty of each and every one of us to make sure that these rights are respected and upheld.
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