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Reflecting Beauty and Revealing Abuse
44,000 Photos From 153 Countries in UNEP Photographic Competition on the Environment 1994-1995

The International Photographic Competition on the Environment 1994-1995 organized by UNEP and sponsored by Canon, Inc., received a record number of entries, 44,039 from 19,391 participants in 153 countries and regions, representing a 46 percent increase over the previous 1991-1992 competition. This collection of impressive photographs reflects our planet's diversity and immense beauty but also reveals massive environmental abuse and destruction.

Tom Stoddart of Great Britain won the Professional Division Gold Prize for a set of photographs, "Cholera Epidemic, Goma." Prawat Tiraweerakajorn from Thailand took the top Amateur Division award with "Water and Life" and Abbey Drucker, a student from the United States, won the top Children's Division honor for "Walrus." Among Japanese participants, Rokuo Kawakami won a Silver Prize in the Professional Division for his set of photographs, "Landscape with Herons" and Yutaka Morioka, a housewife from Osaka, won Amateur Division Bronze Prize for "The Last Paradise." The 127 prize-winning photos, including honorable mentions, will comprise the "Exhibition of Winning Entries in the 2nd UNEP International Photographic Competition on the Environment." This exhibition ran concurrently with the "United Nations 50th Anniversary Exhibition" in Shinjuku, Tokyo, during October last year. The photos were also on display in New York at the United Nations headquarters and in Grand Central Station. In 1996, the exhibition is moving on to other countries.

In her remarks at the launching of UNEP's photographic exhibition at New York's historic Grand Central Terminal, Ms. Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Under-Secretary General, UN Offices at Nairobi and Executive Director of UNEP noted: "Photographs, like ideas, have consequences. They shape the concepts and vocabularies that we use to approach the problems of our time. For this reason, if no other, it is important for us to examine the state of our environment as depicted through the eyes of a camera. We may find them disturbing or beautiful. But through this examination we may also find important threads that can help illuminate our present problems. At the very least, from this examination we can learn to understand ourselves better."

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