Global Peace Photo Award 2024: “Dreams of Childhood” Honored as Peace Photo of the Year

More+Events ♦ Published: September 24, 2024; 11:55 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Global Peace Photo Award ceremony took place in the Austrian Parliament. The peace photo of the year 2024, “Dreams of Childhood”, by photographer and multimedia artist Elisa Iannacone from the UK, was honored.

Elisa Iannacone with her award-winning work “Dreams of Childhood”, honored as Peace Photo of the Year 2024 at the Global Peace Photo Award. / Picture: © Parlamentsdirektion/Ulrike Wieser

The moving series of pictures shows chronically ill children in the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital in South Africa. In imaginative collages, Iannacone visualized the dreams and wishes of the children, who are unable to experience a carefree childhood due to their illness. In one of the pictures, a child floats in a fairytale-like hospital room, impressively depicting the dreams and…