Opening of the 20th North Central Province Art Photography Festival

(Baonghean.vn) -As part of the Hue Craft Village Festival 2013, on the morning of April 28, at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hue City, the 20th North Central Region Art Photography Festival opened. Attending the event were: Mr. Ngo Hoa - Member of the Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue Province; Artist Vu Quoc Khanh - Chairman of the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists; Chairmen of the Literature and Arts Associations; and photographers from 6 provinces in the North Central Region.

Delegates cut the ribbon to open the Festival

With the theme "Country - People of the North Central homeland today" prioritizing works about craft villages, this year's festival attracted 958 works by 160 authors in the region to compete. The works basically expressed rich and diverse content, closely following the prominent theme of the festival, and good performance techniques. The jury selected 150 representative works for the topics for exhibition, of which 11 works won prizes: 1 gold medal, 2 silver medals, 3 bronze medals and 5 consolation prizes. Two authors from Nghe An won the consolation prize (Tu Thanh, Tran To) and 22 works from Nghe An were selected for exhibition.

Delegates view photo exhibition

The gold medal was awarded to the work Almsgiving Festival by Do Van Tri (Thua Thien Hue). The works: Old Friends by Nguyen Xuan Quy (Thanh Hoa), Volunteer Youth by Nguyen Quang Thuyet (Thua Thien Hue) won silver medals. The delegations of Thua Thien Hue and Thanh Hoa were awarded team prizes.

At this festival, the jury selected 5 beautiful photos of traditional crafts to award equal prizes. Among them, the work: Duc Phong Craft Village of Xuan Nhuong Nghe An was awarded equal prize for beautiful photos of craft villages.

The work "Duc Phong Craft Village" by Xuan Nhuong



Colleagues gave flowers to congratulate author Xuan Nhuong

On this occasion, the Organizing Committee also awarded first, second and third prizes in the marathon photo contest launched during a day of the craft festival. The work Restoration by Le Tham (Thanh Hoa) won first prize.

After the opening ceremony of the festival, a workshop was held to evaluate the good and bad aspects of the festival. Photographer Ngoc Thai, chairman of the jury, commented: in general, the photos of the North Central region this year showed clear progress, photographers took better and better photos, handled the techniques more smoothly, the quality of the content was rich and diverse, photographers were present everywhere, reflecting the breath of life of all classes of people... Besides, there were also many opinions disagreeing with some of the award-winning and exhibited works, some works still had technical errors, were illogically patched together, and had stiff lines that were not worthy of representing the selected works but still ranked high. The jury has absorbed the opinions and learned from experience in the following festivals.

Sy Minh