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Speech by Barbara Trionfi, Executive Director, International Press Institute (IPI)
Address by Gerhard Hinterleitner, Managing director ASAblanca Media; Chairman of the Alfred Fried Photography Award Jury 2017 (in german)
Speech by Jan Schmolling, Managing director Deutscher Jugendfotopreis
Photos from the award ceremony
The Alfred Fried Photography Award 2017

The Alfred Fried Photography Award 2017 was presented on 14 September 2017 at a gala in the rooms of the Austrian Parliament. Harald Dossi, Secretary General, Austrian Parliament, introduced the ceremony attended by 150 guests.

The main prize, worth 10 000 euros, went to Sweden-based Cletus Nelson Nwadike, who had left his native Nigeria where a civil war was raging that cost two million lives. In his photo essay Nwadike celebrates freedom from violence and the gift of being allowed to live in peace.

A first this year was the 1000 euros prize for the best single picture, which went to US photographer Jonathan Bachman for the image of a woman protesting peacefully against racial violence, at the moment of her arrest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Another first this year was the best image of peace by a child or young person. The 1000 euros prize went to twelve-year-old Lina Momsen from Hamburg for a picture that captures the importance of friendship. The Children Peace Image of the Year Award is supported by the Vienna Insurance Group.
Speech by Barbara Trionfi, Executive Director, International Press Institute (IPI)

There is a unique skill that journalists and photographers have in common: the ability to – in the words of Robert Bresson – “Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen” and by doing so donate ideas, emotions, aspirations to your audiences, and to anybody who – by choice or by destiny – happens to stumble upon your piece of art, photography, or journalism.

The Alfred Fried Photography Award is a wonderful initiative because it has allowed so many of us, over the years, to see what, without you, without these beautiful photographs, we might perhaps never have seen.

Thanks to the Alfred Fried Photography Award today we know “how peace looks like”. And what we can visualize, we can also envision, we can aim at.

I would like to thank Lois and Silvia Lammerhuber, the Austrian Parliament, all the partners of the Alfred Fried Photography Award and the members of the jury. But mostly, the photographers awarded today for inspiring us and offering images to accompany one of our biggest dreams, for allowing us to be able to say “that’s what peace looks like.”

The Alfred Fried Award has also become every year an occasion to remember those journalists, who lost their lives because of their profession: those who were deliberately targeted as a consequence of stories they covered or were investigating; and those who lost their lives while on assignments, while covering hostile environments or faced with other dangers of the profession.

Like the photographers we honour today, many of the journalists who lost their lives in the past 12 months were people who wanted to “make visible what, without them, might perhaps never have been seen”. Unfortunately, because of their death, many of the stories they were covering, or those they would have been covering, are lost forever.

That’s especially true for those who were local journalists, covering corruption and other crimes in some remote parts of the world where so many of their colleagues’ lives have similarly been taken.

At least 108 journalists died between September 2016 and September 2017 in circumstances that suggest their deaths were linked to their work. 52 of those deaths came in late 2016 and 56 have come so far in 2017, although nearly half of them remain under investigation.

Of the 108 names scrolling behind me, 16 died in Mexico, the deadliest place for journalists, 11 in Iraq, 10 in Russia, 6 each in Syria and Philippines, 5 in Yemen – another of the greatly underreported stories of our time – and 4 each in India, Afghanistan and Guatemala. Others died in Pakistan, Colombia, Bahrain, Honduras, Bangladesh, Congo, Nigeria and in other countries.

Over two thirds of the journalists killed every year around the world are directly targeted by somebody who knows that killing a journalist is the easiest way to ensure that certain information will not be disseminated, neither by the person killed nor by his or her colleagues, who too often are silenced by fear.

Mexico, for example, is a country where investigative journalism as a profession is disappearing, because for too many years too many journalists were killed for covering crime and corruption. Since 2000, at least 110 journalists have lost their lives in killings either directly linked to their reporting, or likely linked and as-yet unsolved.

Two years ago, IPI awarded a group of brave Mexican journalists, Periodistas de a Pie. Accepting the award at IPI’s World Congress, Mexican journalist Daniela Pastrana told us:

“My country … is a country in which an attack on journalists is reported every 26 hours…. Fear and silence have taken root in a large part of the country…. “But we, journalists, are not heroes. We do what we have to do in a country that bleeds every day. We know that journalism is key to defeating the fear that paralyses a society and to ensuring that hope lives on. And we do not have the right to give up now. At least, not while journalists are fighting these battles every day.” But death is not the only way journalists are being silenced. Even closer to home, including in Europe, journalism remains a dangerous job.

Some 189 journalists are currently in prison in Council of Europe member states, countries that have signed and ratified numerous treaties stating that they will indeed respect press and media freedom and the rights of the people to access diverse ideas and information.

Countries like Turkey, and Russia and Azerbaijan, and even Spain.

These are countries that have acknowledged that “Freedom of Expression,” in the words of the European Court of Human Rights “is applicable not only to ‘information’ or ‘ideas’ that are favourably received … but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population. Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no ‘democratic society’.”

And yet journalists are still behind bars.

Overwhelmingly, they are in Turkey, which currently holds 172 journalists.

While journalism in Turkey has never been easy, the situation today has become so extreme that we have asked the Alfred Fried Photography Award to allow us to honour not only the 108 journalists who have lost their lives on the line of duty, but also the 172 journalists deprived of their freedom in Turkey.

The vast majority were detained in a sweeping crackdown on dissent amid the ongoing state of emergency declared after the 2016 coup attempt. A crackdown that looks much more like score-settling and consolidation of power than any real effort to achieve justice for a terrible crime that left some 250 dead and a nation traumatised.

Like many today in Turkey, these journalists are arbitrarily detained for lengthy periods on flimsy accusations, without conviction or sometimes even trial, amid ebbing hopes that they will ever receive due process.

The situation is the culmination of a years-long effort by the government to use a toxic, albeit effective, combination of legal, regulatory and economic pressure to weaken checks and balances, erode respect for human rights and stifle dissent.

Only two days ago, U.N. special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, and OSCE representative on freedom of the media, Harlem Désir jointly stated:

“Turkey’s repression of media freedom and freedom of expression poses a direct threat to the safety of journalists and to journalism in the country.... Freedom of expression is not a right that may only be exercised when deemed convenient by those in power.”

Media freedom – in contributing to government accountability, and to an open, transparent and more equal society – is essential for stability. But as respect for democracy and human rights declines in Turkey, and as independent voices are silenced and only pro-government voices are heard, we fear that instability will only grow and it will spread beyond Turkey’s borders.

When the founding fathers and mothers of IPI gathered in the year 1951 to draft the Constitution of the then-recently founded IPI, they began with these words:

“World peace depends on understanding between peoples and peoples. If peoples are to understand one another, it is essential that they have good information.”

As journalists are increasingly killed and imprisoned around the world, and as “fake news” and other malicious efforts to deceive audiences and undermine democracy proliferate, that sentiment – giving people accurate information on their world, showing them not only conflict and strife and destruction, but also efforts to rise above that – has perhaps never been more important than today.

So I thank you all again for being here and for supporting this important award.

As the International Day of Peace approaches, IPI is so proud to be a partner of the Alfred Fried Peace Photo Award and to play a part in showing the world what peace looks like.

Thank you, Lois, for making this possible!

Address by Gerhard Hinterleitner, Managing director ASAblanca Media; Chairman of the Alfred Fried Photography Award Jury 2017

Sehr geehrter Herr Parlamentspräsident, sehr geehrte Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger, sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

ich frage Sie: Wie sieht Frieden aus? What does peace look like?

Diese Frage ist eine der spannendsten fotografischen Aufgabenstellungen in einer Zeit des „Unfriedens“, der in der Medienberichterstattung einen gewaltigen Überhang hat.

Die meisten der beim Alfred Fried Photography Award einreichenden Photojournalisten und Dokumentarfotografen haben ja durchaus einen starken Bezug zum Thema Frieden, weil sie allzu oft das Gegenteil davon dokumentieren müssen. Viele der eingereichten Reportagen sind daher nach Kriegen oder nach persönlichen Katastrophen entstanden, an jenem Punkt, wo man nach all der Zerstörung und dem Elend möglicherweise bereits ein wenig Frieden für die Geschundenen erahnen kann. Aber sieht so Frieden aus?

Geht es nur um ein friedvolles Bild mit der perfekten fotografischen Komposition? Ist es ein festgehaltener Moment des persönlichen Glücks? Spielende Kinder in urwüchsiger Umgebung? Die Zu“frieden“heit und Idylle in einer selbstversorgenden Aussteigerkommune?

Ist es ein friedensstiftendes Projekt, das die menschliche Gewalttätigkeit im Voraus zu verhindern versucht und damit eine friedvolle Entwicklung unterstützt? Ist es ein Bild des Widerstands gegen Gewalttätigkeit? Oder die Hilfeleistung und die Aufbauarbeit, die nach der Katastrophe angeboten wird?

Die Frage lässt unzählige Interpretationen zu, und die Vielfältigkeit der Einsendungen im Jahr 2017 zeigt auch deutlich, dass es ganz sicher mehr Antworten gibt, als ich hier aufzählen könnte.

Ein sehr hoher Prozentsatz der eingereichten Reportagen und Einzelfotos hat uns hervorragende fotografische Arbeiten geliefert, und es war für die Jury gar nicht einfach, die 5 besten Einreichungen auszuwählen.

2017 waren 19 Jurorinnen und Juroren aus 7 Ländern tätig. Wir bewerten im ersten Durchgang die Einreichungen im Internet über ein Online Punktesystem – und zwar jeder für sich allein und unabhängig von den anderen. Aus diesen Bewertungen wurde auch heuer die Short-List erstellt, die wir am 14. Juli in der gemeinsamen Jurysitzung diskutiert und anschließend daraus die fünf besten Einreichungen ermittelt haben. Aus den fünf Siegern wurde schlussendlich das Friedensbild des Jahres ausgewählt. Ich hatte in diesem Jahr die Ehre, den Vorsitz der Jury übernehmen zu dürfen, und ich muss sagen, ich bin mit dem Ergebnis des Jahres 2017 außerordentlich zufrieden.

Erstmals wurde auch in Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Jugendfotopreis und seinem Leiter Jan Schmolling das „Children Peace Image of the Year“ gesucht, bei dem junge Fotografinnen und Fotografen bis zum Alter von 14 Jahren zur Teilnahme aufgerufen waren. Man darf es als sehr großen Erfolg betrachten, dass von Jugendlichen aus 137 Ländern 1960 Fotos eingereicht wurden! Den Ehrenschutz dieses Preises hat dankenswerterweise Waris Dirie von der Desert Flower Foundation übernommen, sie ist auch Mitglied der Jury.

Als weiteren Entwicklungsschritt darf ich erwähnen, dass der Award heuer erstmals von der WORLD PRESS PHOTO Foundation unterstützt wird. Managing Director Lars Boering hat sich spontan entschlossen, in der Jury mitzuwirken. Nächstes Jahr wird er ihr vorsitzen. Wir freuen uns sehr über den Beginn der Zusammenarbeit mit dem wohl bekanntesten Pressefotopreis der Welt.

Wir können also festhalten: Die Anzahl der Einreichungen steigt von Jahr zu Jahr, wir erhielten insgesamt Einreichungen aus 165 Ländern mit nahezu 20.000 Bildern. Informationen über die Jurymitglieder, die genauen Einreichzahlen sowie die Shortlist der 28 besten Einreichungen sind auf der Website www.friedaward.com zu finden.

Das Ziel bleibt - wie schon in den Jahren davor - auch im nächsten Jahr noch mehr großartige Fotografinnen und Fotografen für die Teilnahme am Bewerb zu gewinnen.

Denn gerade deswegen, weil immer und immer wieder nur menschliche Brutalität regiert und in den Medien vorrangig dokumentiert wird, wollen wir mit der Suche nach den besten Fotos zum Thema Frieden ein mediales Gegengewicht aufbauen, um auch in der Öffentlichkeit dazu anzuregen, sich mit dem Thema Frieden auseinanderzusetzen und vielleicht auch persönlich ein wenig mitzuhelfen, das Erreichen einer friedvollen Zukunft als wichtigste Aufgabe der Menschheit voranzutreiben. Ich darf dazu abschließend Alfred Hermann Fried zitieren und mich für den Award und die Organisatoren dieser Aussage anschließen:

„Unsere Friedensarbeit wird immer wie eine Preisung eines bereits errungen erscheinenden Friedenszustandes angesehen, unsere Kongresse als Jubelfeste über den Frieden, während wir in Wirklichkeit nichts anderes wollen als einem Zustand zuzuarbeiten, den auch wir noch nicht erreicht wähnen. Wir feiern nicht den errungenen Frieden, wir streben ihm erst zu. Und ein ausgebrochener Krieg beweist nicht, dass wir uns geirrt haben, sondern dass wir Recht hatten.“
Speech by Jan Schmolling, Managing director Deutscher Jugendfotopreis (in german)

Kinder und Jugendliche haben einen eigenen, besonderen Blick auf die Welt. Es ist daher wichtig, ihre Sichtweisen ernst zu nehmen und ihre Kreativität zu fördern. Der Deutsche Jugendfotopreis, im Auftrag des Bundesjugendministeriums vom Deutschen Kinder- und Jugendfilmzentrum veranstaltet, verdeutlicht das seit vielen Jahren. Es gelingt ihm, das sichtbar zu machen, was Kinder und Jugendliche bewegt – und er zeigt zugleich, wie kompetent ihr Umgang mit Medien ist. Kinder und Jugendliche nutzen die Fotografie nicht nur zur schnellen Kommunikation, sondern vielfach auch mit künstlerischen Ambitionen. Sie teilen ihre Gedanken und Gefühle mit und finden dafür ihre besondere Bildsprache.

Es war mir daher eine große Freude, die neue Kinder-Sektion des renommierten Alfred Fried Photography Award mitentwickeln zu dürfen, die die vermeintlich so einfache Frage stellt: „Wie sieht für dich Frieden aus?“
Für viele Kinder und Jugendliche ist Krieg brutale Realität. Und auch die Medienbilder, die auf uns Andere tagtäglich einwirken, zeigen vielfach Krieg und Gewalt, sie hinterlassen Spuren, prägen unsere Wahrnehmung, unser Denken, Fühlen und Handeln. Erwachsene und ältere Jugendliche können die Medienbilder einordnen, bewerten und eigene Schutzstrategien entwickeln. Kinder können das nicht. Daher kommt es darauf an, sie zu unterstützen, damit sie auch andere, positive Perspektiven und Vorstellungen entwickeln lernen – vom friedlichen Miteinander, von einem Leben in Frieden. Mit der Frage „Wie sieht für dich Frieden aus? leistet dieser Fotowettbewerb dazu einen Beitrag.

Bei der Sichtung der Einsendungen war ich begeistert von den fantasievollen Motiven, der originellen Bildsprache und dem kreativen Teamwork. Die Motivwelten der Kinder unterscheiden sich dabei von den Arbeiten der Profis und erweitern das Spektrum des Alfred Fried Awards erheblich. Und in der Umsetzung vermitteln sich sehr persönliche Ideen und Geschichten.

Ich finde, die Premiere des internationalen Friedensfotopreises für Kinder ist gelungen. Es gibt überaus sehenswerte Ergebnisse und eine würdige Preisträgerin. Es wäre großartig, wenn dieser Fotowettbewerb nächstes Jahr wieder stattfinden sollte. Das KJF und der Deutsche Jugendfotopreis werden ihn wieder sehr gerne unterstützen.

Photos from the award ceremony on 14 September 2017 in the rooms of the Austrian Parliament in Vienna

Copyright by Jacqueline Godany (APA) and Johannes Zinner (Austrian Parliament). Thank you!
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