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The10th
Photography Category
Awarded


Comprehensive Comment/ Sasaki Kon, Chairperson of the Selection Committee

Everyone in the world should understand the current situation of global environmental issues and think about countermeasuresagainst destruction of the global environment. We should understandthe situation ourselves and attract the attention of others toenvironmental conservation. Photography is one of the mostappropriate methods to promote public awareness.The 2001 entries include those from the countries of Asia(including Japan), Oceania, Polynesia, and Russia and helped usunderstand the environmental situation of various countries. Photography, as a media of communication, enabled us to knowthere are unexpected problems in unexpected places.As for the general comment on the entries as a whole, I felt mostof the participants chose a "garbage problem" as their themes. I would like them to cover more extensive issues, including thedestruction of nature, and some countermeasures against andimprovements for those problems.The quality of the entries was outstanding, especially in cameraand finishing techniques. I would like the participants to expresswhat they want the audience to see in their works.

+Number of applications: 362
+Number of participating countries: 10(including area)
(Details, in no specific order)
India: 4/Indonesia: 16/Sri Lanka: 2/Japan : 112/Nepal: 9/Pakistan: 4/Philippines: 28/Vietnam: 164/Malaysia: 21/Russia: 2

+Number of Prize-Winning Photographs: 67

+Awards
Excellence Prize (two awards) 100,000 yen
Jurors' Special Prize(one awards) 100,000 yen
Special Prize (20 awards) Prize
Selected Photograph (30 awards) Souvenir
Honorable Mention (14awards) Souvenir
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Excellence Prize
A Lunchat High Land Field



satuTran Quoc DungiVietnam)

So far, agriculture work at high-land area becomes worse. So that, a life of high-land people, including children becomes more difficult. Their lunch at a noon break with "MEW MEW" (corn powder) only. But children are happy in spite of difficulties in their life.

Juror's Review
The children look happy despite their poverty. This photo shows the kind compassion the photographer felt for them.(Toi Jugatsu)

Excellence Prize
Leak of Water



satuNguyen Minh QuaniVietnamj

Where is the water? The clean water that is indispensable to our life?

Juror's Review
The boy's look at the tap, which almost appears like praying in a way, makes us imagine his daily life, his family, his nation and various other backgrounds. Gifts of heaven are not distributed fairly either due to some quirk of fate or as a punishment on an uncaring mankind. Which, I do not know. I want to know a way we can share them evenly among all mankind. I wish any child in any country could look happy and be filled with hope for the future.(Yoshioka Sakoto)

Jurors' Special Prize
Age 11



satuMunehiro Yasunaga(Japan)

An eleven-year thinner addict makes his living by picking up plastic and aluminum from the pile of garbage carried from Manila. He cannot afford to go to school. He collects paint or thinner from the garbage and sniffs them at dusk on top of the garbage pile . He told me six months ago that he wanted to be a doctor in the future.

Juror's Review
An eleven-year-old boy cannot afford to go to school, and makes his living by picking up and selling garbage from the garbage pile consisting of garbage brought from Manila. He is a cheerful and nice boy, but I worried about him smoking. Six months ago, he told Mr. Yasunaga that he would like to be a doctor in the future. I worry that his future will be no different from now. Environmental issues can thus induce many side effects.(Sasaki Kon)

Special Prize/Fujifilm
Friends in the Forest


Tsuji Masakazu iJapanj

Special Prize/Fujicolorservice
Sister



Takahashi TadashiiJapanj

Special Prize/Prolab Create
The End of a Century



Yoshimura KiyoichiiJapanj

Jorors

+Chairperson of the Selection Committee/Sasaki Kon/Photographer

Profile
Joined Tokyo Cinema in 1963 and became a freelancephotographer in 1969. He founded the Society of ScientificPhotography in 1978 and currently serves as its chairperson.His works appear seriallyover 25 years in famous literary and photography magazines as well as in his own publications.He has held exhibitions throughout Japan and has also won many prestigious awards, including Imperial Order of the Sacred Treasure.

+Toi Jugatsu/Author

Profile
Started his career as an author after working as an illustratorand freelance writer. He now works as anactor and documentary directorfor filmand TV.In 1983, he crossed the North America continent by motorbike.He has traveled more than 200,000 kmby motorbike in the 18years since then. In 2001, he successfully crossed his thirdcontinent, Africa. His recent works include Sekai de Ichiban Zeitaku na Tabi (Shogakukan), Ekkyoki (B.R. Circus),Roshinante no Abara (Shueisha).

+Yoshioka Sakoto/Musical actress

Profile
Graduated at the top of the list from the Vocal Music Course, Faculty of Music, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. She successfully auditioned for the Shiki Theater Company while at the university, and performed on various stages in the Company's productions. After she left the Company, she also acted in musicals and dramas and performed as a guest singer for concerts. In 1995, she started to hold concerts mainly in Hokkaido. She plays an active role in linking musical shows and classical music. She has also highly interest in environmental issues, and joined in special talk event of Rachel Carson's "Sense of Wonder" in Japan Expo 2001 in Kitakyusyu.

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