Exhibitions
The Peace Photo of the Year at the Austrian Parliament
The Peace Photo of the Year 2014 is part of the picture series "Towards the Horizon" by Russian photographer Emil Gataullin. The winning photograph of the Alfred Fried Photography Award is now exhibited at the Austrian parliament as a message of peace. "The parliament is a place of conciliation and peace. It is about communication and working out compromises,” Doris Bures, President of the National Council, emphasized when the picture was officially presented to the parliament. She added that this was why the foyer of the assembly hall of the national council was a fitting place to exhibit the Peace Photo of the Year 2014. The initiator of the award, Lois Lammerhuber, presented the photograph together with two of the generous sponsors of the 2014 Awards, Silvia Lammerhuber and Gerhard Hinterleitner.
This year’s winning picture is part of a series shot in black and white by Emil Gataullin with an analogue camera to portray life in rural Russia. The award-winning photograph shows two youths on a swing, caught at the moment of rollover. For the jury it is a symbol of a world that seems to stand on its head. The Alfred Fried Photography Award was first presented in 2013. It was established jointly by the Photographische Gesellschaft and Edition Lammerhuber. It is named after the Austrian pacifist author Alfred Hermann Fried, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911 for his work.
The Peace Photo of the Year 2014 is part of the picture series "Towards the Horizon" by Russian photographer Emil Gataullin. The winning photograph of the Alfred Fried Photography Award is now exhibited at the Austrian parliament as a message of peace. "The parliament is a place of conciliation and peace. It is about communication and working out compromises,” Doris Bures, President of the National Council, emphasized when the picture was officially presented to the parliament. She added that this was why the foyer of the assembly hall of the national council was a fitting place to exhibit the Peace Photo of the Year 2014. The initiator of the award, Lois Lammerhuber, presented the photograph together with two of the generous sponsors of the 2014 Awards, Silvia Lammerhuber and Gerhard Hinterleitner.
This year’s winning picture is part of a series shot in black and white by Emil Gataullin with an analogue camera to portray life in rural Russia. The award-winning photograph shows two youths on a swing, caught at the moment of rollover. For the jury it is a symbol of a world that seems to stand on its head. The Alfred Fried Photography Award was first presented in 2013. It was established jointly by the Photographische Gesellschaft and Edition Lammerhuber. It is named after the Austrian pacifist author Alfred Hermann Fried, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911 for his work.