Sad farewell to wife and children at Odessa station is the winning photo of Siena Awards 2023

Overall winner of the 2023 edition of the Siena International Photo Awards is Georgy, a photo taken by Iraqi-American photographer and journalist Salwan Georges. “On March 5, 2022 at Odessa train station, Georgy Keburia sadly greets his wife Maya and children as they board a train bound for Lviv. The situation in the region of eastern Ukraine has become extremely critical as fighting has intensified. In cities such as Mariupol, Kherson and Mykolaiv, women and children are forced to flee their homes, desperately trying to find a safe place to take refuge. However, men like Georgy have a different task: to stay and fight to defend their country and their families,” reads the description of the image on the award’s official website.

All SIPA 2023 winners were announced in Siena’s Teatro dei Rinnovati on Saturday, Sept. 30, kicking off the Siena Awards 2023, the festival that will bring shots by international photographers to the city and surrounding area until Nov. 19, 2023.

In the Journeys & Adventures category, Following their tradition by Indian photographer Shyjith Onden Cheriyath wins: the image depicts Jordanian camel drivers engaged in relieving their animals by getting help from the natural action of the salt water of the sea, which can eliminate annoying insects. Shooting Range Participant, on the other hand, is the winning photo in the Fascinating faces and characters category by U.S. photographer Matt McClain: it depicts two children aged ten and five engaged in a gun safety course at a shooting range in Maryland.

Fabio Savini ’sNew Generation wins in The beauty of nature category: two salamanders engaged in laying eggs along submerged branches in the Casentino forests, highlighting the life cycle of every living thing. A line of lions intent on following the footprints left by the tires of U.S. photographer Torie Hilley is the winning image in the Animals in their Environment: Lions in Lines category, which recounts a fortunate encounter between Torie and a pride of lions where, after a day spent attempting to capture the king of the savannah, it is he who shows himself in all his beauty.

The Sports in action category sees first place go to an image in ’two shots’: the first by photographer Samuel Barnes and the second by Grant Holloway, immortalized in his run during the semifinals in the 60-meter hurdles. The image comes directly from the World Indoor Track and Field Championships held at the Stark Arena in Belgrade. A few seconds later, in fact, Holloway equaled his own record of 7 seconds and 29 hundredths to the penny. In the Documentary & Photojournalism category, the photo taken by Hungarian photographer Andras D. Hajdu entitled Kherson Boy wins: the image depicts the face of Glib, a young 13-year-old boy intent on listening to the words of Ukrainian President Zelensky during a public speech. The image is dated November 11, 2022, and for the first time Glib was able to breathe fresh air after eight months of conflict.

In contrast, the happiness and harmony of Iranian women during the Nowruz, captured by Iranian photographer Mobin Shahvaisi’s image, wins in the Under 20 category. A French boy’s dive wins the Street Photography category with the photo taken by Frenchman Segalen Benoit: A la Station Balneaire depicts a group of boys intent on taking a few dives from the roof of a gas station located near a pier.

In the Underwater Life category, Lilian Koh ’s shot dedicated to the theme of fate wins. The image, from the waters of Anilao, Philippines, captures a grouper about to be swallowed by a lizard fish. Moments after the flash, the preyed upon animal manages to escape the lizard fish’s bite with a dart.

Winning in the different Storytelling categories were Italy’s Siegfried Modola with Inside Myanmar’s Armed Uprising (Storytelling category: General News), devoted to Myanmar’s ongoing civil war since 2021; America’s Morgan Heim with Barometer Birds (Storytelling category: Nature, environment, and conservation issues), with images from Middleton Island, off the coast of Alaska, where an old Cold War air base has become a natural habitat for thousands of seabirds and the subject of study for a small group of international scientists; France’s Laetitia Vançon with Tribute to Odesa (Storytelling: Daily life and contemporary issues), where daily life in Odessa is chronicled; and America’s Ami Vitale with Remembering Sudan (Video category: General).

The award for Best Author in the Siena International Photo Awards 2023 is finally won by American photographer Wolfgang Schwan. Ukraine’s War, the title of his winning shot represents his firsthand account of the conflict in Ukraine, where he stayed for eight months during 2022 to document what was happening in the trenches of the Donbass and daily life in the country.

All Siena Awards exhibitions will be open until Nov. 19 with the following hours: Fridays, from 3 to 7 p.m.; Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Siena Awards festival is promoted by the cultural association Art Photo Travel in co-organization with the Municipality of Siena, with the collaboration of the Municipality of Sovicille and the Municipality of Chiusdino and the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, the Region of Tuscany, the University of Siena, and the Chamber of Commerce of Siena and Arezzo.

For all info: www.sienawards.com

Sad farewell to wife and children at Odessa station is the winning photo of Siena Awards 2023

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