Prisma

Dedicated to the theme of freedom, the winner shooting of PRISMA | Human Rights Photo Contest – by Max Bastard – is on view in Venice with the other twenty finalists.

Margherita Vitagliano, <i>Untitled</i>, 2013

Won by Max Bastard, Prisma Human Rights Photo Contest is an international contest open to professional and amateur, devoted this year to the theme of “Freedom” and officially launched during the Venice Art Biennale opening with Alfredo Jaar.

The twenty selected images will be displayed, along with photographs by the special guest photographer Rena Effendi, to illustrate the relevance of “Freedom” as a fundamental human right and the importance of defending it. Freedom from oppression, freedom of speech and belief, freedom of movement, freedom from fear, freedom of thought and freedom of opinion.

Max Bastard, <i>A Peasants Struggle</i>, 2015 — **Top**: Margherita Vitagliano, *Untitled*, 2013, Italy. **Left**: Max Bastard, *A Peasants Struggle*, 2015, Sigidi Village, Pondoland, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

The winner was announced by an international jury composed by Rena Effendi, internationally renowned Azerbaijani photographer; Isabelle Gattiker, General and Programme Director of the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva; Almir Koldzic, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Counterpoints Arts, organisation comprising creative arts and cultural projects exploring refugee and migrant experiences; Azu Nwagbogu, Director of the Lagos Photo Festival and of the African Artists’ Foundation; and Alberto Prina, photojournalist and Founder of the Gruppo Fotografico Progetto Immagine and of the Festival of Ethical Photography.

Jenevieve Aken, The Masked Woman, 2014, Lagos (Nigeria)

Mario Badagliacca, Chessboard, from the project Lettere dal CIE, 2014, Identification and Expulsion Centers (CIE), Bari Palese, Italy

Michael Vince Kim, Sung-ok Tigay, 92, 2014, Ushtobe, Kazakhstan

Mário Macilau, Enjoying, 2014, Maputo, Mozambique

Jumoke Sanwo, The Silence, 2013, N'Djamena, Chad

Luigi Storto, Bosketari, 2011, Bucharest, Romania

Patrick Tombola, Not free to be young, 2015, Soyapango, El Salvador

until October 11, 2015
Prisma
Human Rights Photo Contest
a project by The Global Campus of Master’s Programmes and Diplomas in Human Rights and Democratisation
in collaboration withLightbox
Monastero di San Nicolò
Lido di Venezia

Photographs by Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan) and Jenevieve Aken (Nigeria), Mario Badagliacca (Italy), Max Bastard (South Africa), Chen Yi-Jie (Taiwan), Nicolas De Luigi (Italy / Switzerland), Jean-Jérôme Destouches (France / Argentina), Khaled Hasan (Bangladesh), Michael Vince Kim (Korea / USA), Ivan Kovalev (Russia / USA), Mário Macilau (Mozambique), Myriam Meloni (Italy), Adam Jacobi Moller (Denmark), Ramón Ruiz Sampaio (Mexico), Michele Salati (Italy), Jumoke Sanwo (Nigeria), Simone Settimo (Italy), Luigi Storto (Italy), Federico Sutera Sardo (Italy), Patrick Tombola (Italy / Australia), Margherita Vitagliano (Italy)

Prisma

Dedicated to the theme of freedom, the winner shooting of PRISMA | Human Rights Photo Contest – by Max Bastard – is on view in Venice with the other twenty finalists.

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