JOHANNESBURG: Stenin Exhibition of winning pictures took place at the Market Photo Workshop in Newtown, Johannesburg on Thursday. The Andrei Stenin International Photo Contest is an annual contest for young photojournalists, it is only a Russia’s platform for discovering new photojournalists and for allowing them to make a name for themselves on the world photojournalism stage. In 2017, around 5000 entries by young photojournalists from 76 countries were submitted to the contest and the winning entries were exhibited around the world. 

The exhibition of winning entries includes 50 works by young reporters from Russia, Spain, Greece, Serbia, Italy, India, China and South Africa, for African participants. South African photographer Phandulwazi Jikelo won first place for his single “Grabouw housing protest” in the Top News category. Kenyan photographer Kevin Midigo took second place in the same category. Video by: Ian Landsberg