Ha Van Dong of Vietnam and Mikkhail Bondar of Ukraine won gold medals at the 6th international photo exhibition 2011 in Vietnam for their photographs ‘The Trio’ and ‘Raising Planet-10’.
The photo exhibition cum ‘VN-11’ contest began in June, receiving 10,612 entries from 1602 photographers from 54 countries around the world.
Among the various subjects for the contest, the topic “Vietnam- images through international eyes” was meant exclusively for foreigners who visited the country for travel or work purposes and took pictures of the landscape and the Vietnamese people.
The organizers also awarded 40 prizes to artists from Vietnam, the UK, Germany, Hungary, Myanmar, Turkey, Slovenia, France, the US, Australia, Austria, Spain and Finland.
The exhibition and awards ceremony will take place in Hanoi in November.
The event was organized by the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists, supported by the International Federation of Photographic Art.
