The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the online newspaper
Vnexpress will promote Vietnam’s beauty with a contest focusing on
landscapes and slices of daily life, said Deputy Minister Vuong Duy
Bien.
Vietnamese people living locally or overseas can enter the
contest, which ends on October 27. Participants can submit photo
entries in two categories: landscapes or daily life. Photos capturing
precious moments among Vietnamese people anywhere will be accepted.
“The
photo contest coincides with a Ministry of Culture programme to promote
the country’s image to the world. This is the first time the ministry
has coordinated with Vietnam’s leading online newspaper to hold this
contest,” Bien said at the launching ceremony in Hanoi on September 29.
A
panel of foreign jurors will judge entries based on creativity and
professionalism. They’ll award two first-place prizes, two second-places
and two third-places for each category. The prizes together total 500
million VND. Vnexpress’s readers can also vote online for the best
photos each week during the contest’s run.
The ministry and
Vnexpress have received 12,000 photos by 5,700 photographers since the
competition began in August. More than 700 photos selected from the
qualifying round have already been posted online:
http://photo.vnexpress.net.
The winners’ work will appear in
local and overseas photo exhibitions to promote Vietnam’s culture,
landscape and people. The best photos will be added to the ministry’s
digital photo library and used for cultural events around the world.-VNA