Chinese amateur takes world鈥檚 richest photography award
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A Chinese amateur has scooped the world’s richest photography award with an image of a makeshift classroom in a poor village in the nation’s southeast.
Construction entrepreneur Zhou Fuyang, 54, won the US$120,000 top prize in the annual Hamdan International Photography Awards (HIPA) in Dubai.
“I took this photograph in the home of the mayor of an extremely poor village in Jiangxi Province, where classes were being held for the village children,” Zhou said on Tuesday.
The theme of this year’s competition was “Building the Future” and Zhou said, “I wanted to show that these people go to enormous efforts to educate themselves and develop their region.”
Zhou’s photo shows the children being taught in a bare room with the wall used as an improvised blackboard.
The happy prizewinner said he now plans to devote himself full time to photography, his passion since age 6.
Dubai’s young crown prince, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashed al-Maktoum, who set up the HIPA awards with total prize money of US$389,000, is himself a keen photographer. Next year’s theme is to be “The Colors of Life.”
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