Photographer Viet Van from Lao Dong Newspaper won the first prize at the ‘People & Planet International Photography Competition 2011’ in Australia for his picture titled “Decisive Moment”.
The prize winning photograph depicts monks of the Khmer ethnic group from the Kom Pông Chrây Pagoda in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh.
The same photograph also won second prize at the annual ‘Pollux Awards 2011’ in England in April this year.
This year the ‘People & Planet International Photography Competition’ received over 4,000 entries from 84 countries across the world.
The ‘People & Planet International Photography Exhibition’ was launched in 2010 with the sole aim of showing beautiful visual images of various aspects of human life on the planet to a wider audience.
The second prize and the ‘Diary Covert’ prize went to Jashim Salam and Kazi Riasat Alve from Bangladesh for their works “The Golden Fibre” and “All-rounder”.
