Serbian photojournalist wins SEEMO Human Rights Award

Serbian photojournalist wins SEEMO Human Rights Award

SEEMO/IPI Press Release

Vienna, 18 May 2011-The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) announces that Janko Petkovic (1985, Kragujevac, Serbia) won the SEEMO Human Rights Photo Award.

The winning photograph Proboj ("Breakthrough"), shot on 10 October 2011 during the Gay Parade in Belgrade, Serbia, was selected by the SEEMO jury, headed by Dubravko Kolendic (NIN magazine, Belgrade).

Petkovic works as a photojournalist for the Belgrade-based Beta News Agency and freelances for Hello fashion magazine.

SEEMO Human Rights Award is part of the Beta Photo Award Competition. Both awards -BETA and SEEMO - will be presented to the winners on 19 May 2011 at new Moment Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia.

The winners of the BETA Photo Award Competition are: Louisa Gouliamaki, AFP, Greece, for the photograph Athens 1; Janko Petkovic, Beta, Serbia, for the photograph Proboj ("Breakthrough") and Damir Sencer, HINA, Croatia, for the photograph Stop progunu hrvatskih branitelja ("Stop persecuting the defenders of Croatia").

BETA has organised this photo competition since 2004 and SEEMO has participated for the past four years with its special award. In 2011, 11 photographers from nine countries submitted 486 entries for the competition. The awards are designed to promote photojournalism in South East Europe.

The winners of the previous SEEMO competitions are: Maja Zlatevska, Dnevnik, Skopje, in 2008; Nebojsa Radosavljevic-Raus freelance photographer from Belgrade, Serbia, in 2009; and Mahir Vranac, freelance photographer from Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2010.

The winning photograph, as well as the runners-up, will be printed in SEEMO publications and published on its website.

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