Izvestia photojournalist Pavel Volkov won the prestigious Andrei Stenin international photojournalism competition. He took second place in the “Portrait. A Hero of Our Time “for a series of photographs” Phoenix “. The work reveals the story of a brother and sister who were badly burned in a fire as a child. On their faces and hands, even after numerous operations, traces of the terrible consequences of the fire are still visible.
“Numerous operations and a long process of socialization are in the past. Children have grown up and are trying to find their place in life. Lyosha is studying to be a computer technician, and Vika wants to become a dog handler, ”says Pavel Volkov’s job description.
In Russia, about 60 thousand children receive burns every year, and 25 thousand of them require hospitalization.
The Andrey Stenin International Photojournalism Competition is an annual competition for young photojournalists from 18 to 33 years old. In 2021, the competition collected more than 4.5 thousand works from 70 countries of the world. Since its launch in 2014, the winners’ photographs have been exhibited in Moscow, Cape Town, Budapest, Madrid, New Delhi, Milan, New York, Ankara, Buenos Aires and other cities around the world.
Applications are accepted annually on December 22, on the birthday of Andrey Stenin, a photojournalist of the Rossiya Segodnya media group, who died in the line of duty.