STOP TB PARTNERSHIP
NOTE TO THE MEDIA
For immediate release
2010 Images to Stop Tuberculosis Photo Award now open for
entries
15 April 2010 – Geneva – The Stop TB Partnership today launched the 2010
Images to Stop Tuberculosis Photo Award competition. The award, which has the
goal of promoting creation of outstanding photos depicting prevention and
treatment of tuberculosis (TB), is sponsored by the Lilly MDR-TB Partnership.
Photographers are invited to submit their work for consideration. An international
jury of photography experts and representatives from UN and other partner
organizations and chaired by internationally renowned photojournalist Gary
Knight will select the winning photographer. The winner will receive US$ 5000 in
prize money and a US$ 5000 grant to produce photo reportage about TB, a
disease that takes the lives of nearly two million people each year.
The 2009 award went to David Rochkind of the United States. Mr Rochkind made
use of the grant to produce a photo reportage documenting the impact of TB and
TB care in Mumbai, India. The reportage was widely published internationally in
March on sites including the BBC
(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/8582491.stm), the Telegraph,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7541354/Tuberculosischallenge-
and-treatment.html
(
tb-day
(
available for viewing on the Stop TB Partnership web site at
, the Global Posthttp://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/full-frame/100323/tuberculosis-photosworld-) and Newsweek Japanhttp://newsweekjapan.jp/picture/22068.php). Photos from the reportage are
http://www.stoptb.org/news/announcements/2010/rochkind.asp
Applicants for the 2010 award must submit a portfolio of 10 to 15 photographs
depicting health-related issues. All entries must be received at the Stop TB
Partnership by 30 July 2010.
The name of the winner will be announced in November 2010. Photos from the
winner’s photo reportage will be exhibited in future editions of the Images to Stop
Tuberculosis Exhibition*.
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Note to editors
The Stop TB Partnership
Geneva, Switzerland, is composed of more than 1000 international organizations,
donors, and nongovernmental and governmental organizations, and organizations
representing the affected community — all are working together to eliminate TB.
The Partnership’s Global Plan to Stop TB (2006-2015) sets forth a roadmap for
halving TB prevalence and deaths compared with 1990 levels by 2015.
, which is hosted by the World Health Organization in
The Lilly MDR-TB Partnership
health and relief organizations, academic institutions and private companies and
is led by Eli Lilly & Company. Its mission is to address the expanding crisis of
multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The partnership is pursuing a
comprehensive strategy to fight MDR-TB through increasing drug supply at
concessionary prices; research; providing training in prevention, treatment,
and surveillance; and sharing drug manufacturing technology with nations most
at risk of MDR-TB.
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intended to raise awareness of the disease worldwide. The exhibition opened in
Rio de Janeiro on 23 March 2009 and will go on to tour major cities across the
globe.
The images, both colour and black-and-white, are exhibited through a mix of
styles and formats—including projections and digital displays—and complemented
by valuable information about the disease, particularly its scale, prevention and
treatment.
The exhibition, curated by Christian Caujolle in collaboration with an international
Advisory Board chaired by renowned photographer Gary Knight, was inspired by
the significant global interest in the Images to Stop Tuberculosis Photo Award.
is a public-private initiative that encompasses globalImages to Stop Tuberculosis is a powerful and innovative photo exhibition
For further information, please contact:
Judith Mandelbaum-Schmid, Senior Communications Adviser, Stop TB Partnership, +41 22
791 29 67, mobile +41 79 254 6835, email:
schmidj@who.int.