Indian Photographer Receives Global Peace Photo Award 2022

More+Events ♦ Published: November 16, 2022; 23:48 ♦ (Vindobona)

For the tenth time the winners of the international photo competition "Global Peace Photo Award" were awarded the Alfred Fried Peace Medal in the Austrian Parliament. The Indian photographer, Sourav Das, wins with a picture from his reportage "A Small yet Great Victory Over the Pandemic".

For the tenth time, the winners of the international photo competition "Global Peace Photo Award" were selected in the Austrian Parliament. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

The main prize of 10,000 euros, "Peace Image of the Year 2022," went to Indian photographer Sourav Das for his reportage on how, during the global Corona-related education emergency, the initiative of Indian teacher Deepnarayan Nayak turned the walls of his village's houses into school blackboards.

Sourav Das and his picture

Incidentally, Sourav Das,…