EDITION LAMMERHUBER : Elisa L. Iannacone awarded ‘Peace Image of the Year’ at the Global Peace Photo Award 2024
For the 12th time, the winners of the Global Peace Photo Award were honored at the Austrian Parliament in Vienna with the Alfred Fried Peace Medal on 23 September 2024. Out of more than 20,000 entries from 112 countries, ‘Dreams of Childhood’ by Mexican-British artist Elisa L. Iannacone was chosen and awarded a prize worth €7,000 for the ‘Peace Image of the Year 2024’.
In his welcome speech, President of the Austrian National Council, Wolfgang Sobotka, emphasized the extraordinary partnership with the Global Peace Photo Award and how important it is to provide a forum for peace in this day and age. In general, conflicts can only be overcome through dialogue, according to the President of the National Council. In Sobotka’s view, the Global Peace Photo Award integrates the theme of peace into daily life by honoring photographers who have ‘put their finger into the wound’ with their lens.
Global Peace Photo Award 2024 winners:
Elisa Iannacone from the UK/Mexico for ‘Dreams of Childhood’
The Alfred Fried Peace Medal 2024 and €1,000 prize went to:
Danila Tkachenko from Russia/Italy for ‘Inversion’
Maryam Saeedpoor from Iran for ‘Women, Life, Freedom’
Winner of the Single Images category: Antonio Aragón Renuncio from Spain for ‘The Dancer’.
Winner of the Children’s category: Daria Heß from Germany for ‘Happiness’.
The winning images will each be displayed in the auditorium, where most press conferences take place, for the duration of one year.
Jury member Peter-Matthias Gaede lauded the winning reportage by Elisa L. Iannacone, which brought joy to the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital in South Africa. At an early age, Iannacone started to feel similar to a ‘translator’ of sorts – a voice for those silenced by suffering, i.e., the victims of war and sexual violence. She has experienced death and rape up close and has since been working on processing the trauma. Battling against apathy, against compassion fatigue, and against the feeling of being alone the tortured are forced to live with. She wants to build bridges for them – to others and to a restored feeling of self-worth. Having studied in Toronto and London, Iannacone has traveled to over 75 countries, where she has shown her work at major exhibitions and participated in festivals.
‘The Children’s Peace Image of the Year 2024’ worth €1,000 was awarded to 14-year-old Daria Heß from Germany for ‘Happiness’. “For me, peace means being able to be happy and okay with the life you have – even if you have also experienced worries and fears. Peace means having the strength to let yourself be guided more by beautiful things than by difficulties,” Daria Heß wrote under her photo sent in from Hamburg.
Daria’s face lit up with joy not only because of the award but also the Leica D-LUX 8 she received from Johannes Dietrich, Managing Director of Leica Austria, meant to ‘inspire her creative possibilities’.
Lois Lammerhuber, who initiated and still organizes the Global Peace Photo Award with his wife Silvia Lammerhuber, reminds us: “Peace is not the absence of war, but something I would call ‘living life successfully’.” With their combined passion for art and creativity, the photographers formulated an ode to respect for the fragility of our world. They attest the relationships between mankind and nature as a mandate for responsible living. With their talents, their perspective, and their visions, they describe the societal and ecological challenges that we need to start or continue to think about. They captivate the eye with photographs that take root directly in the heart and encourage us to stand against stagnation, indifference, and the prevailing populism. An appeal to the world that is firmly inscribed in the heart of our award.”
The majority of entries came from India, Germany, Russia, Iran, and the US. The Global Peace Photo Award is organized in partnership with Edition Lammerhuber, the Photographic Society (PHG), UNESCO, Austrian Parliament, the Association of Parliamentary Journalists, the International Press Institute (IPI), the World Press Photo Foundation, POY LATAM, LensCulture, APA – Austria Press Agency, the German Society for Photography (DGPh), UNICEF Austria, and the Vienna Insurance Group.
GoSee: globalpeacephotoaward.org
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