AFP, Fujairah set up photojournalism contest
Agence France-Presse and the Gulf emirate of Fujairah are organising an international photojournalism contest under an agreement signed on Monday.
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Agence France-Presse and the Gulf emirate of Fujairah are organising an international photojournalism contest under an agreement signed on Monday.
The AFP Foundation signed a partnership agreement on Sunday, November 17, with the group twofour54, a hub of media and entertainment content production based in Abu Dhabi, under which it will provide training for journalists working in countries throughout the Gulf region. The training courses will be run by Arabic mother-tongue journalists employed by AFP in the Middle East or North Africa and will focus on enhancing a wide range of professional media skills.
Entitled ‘My Afghanistan’, this award is organized by Agence France-Presse in honour of Shah Marai, who was chief photographer at the AFP Kabul bureau when he was killed in a suicide attack on April 30, 2018, aged just 41. Throughout his career, Shah Marai was an example for Afghan photographers, capturing unique pictures of his country with passion and tenderness.
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