A photo exhibition presenting best works from The Day’s 2003 Fifth International Photo Contest and prizewinners from the previous years finished in Ivano-Frankivsk. An Audience Choice Prize was also awarded within the framework of the exhibition. Visitors could name the works they liked most, filling in a special questionnaire.
The Monday before last a commission including, in addition to The Day’s representative, head of the Tysmenytsi-based Columbus People’s Photo Club Rostyslav Kondrat, head of the Ivano-Frankivsk oblast branch of the Photo Artists Union Stepan Nazarenko, and director of the Ivano-Frankivsk local History Museum Yaroslav Shtyrkalo counted the 293 questionnaires.
The greatest number of votes (26) were given to Serhiy Starostenko’s Ivan Kupala Jump. Mykola Lazarenko’s Timeout received two votes less. The third was Bohdan Barbila with his photo evidence of the Zakarpattia flood, Four Candles — Four Lives under the Ruins of the House.
The oblast authorities presented Serhiy Starostenko with Vasyl Pilipiuk’s photo album Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and a money prize of 500 hryvnias. Head of the oblast cultural administration Roman Ivanytsky promised at the awards ceremony that the money prize will be sent to the winner by postal order in a few days.
Local Vezha, Halychyna, and the Three Studio television companies presented The Day’s photo exhibition in their news programs as one of the major events in the oblast center’s cultural life. From December 19, The Day 2003 photo exhibition is on display at the Ternopil Oblast Arts Museum.
