First visit to Hilversum Museum for me. Enjoyed the exhibition.
Tags: Zilveren Camera 2015 Hilversum Canon Eddy van Wessel
Tags: Zilveren Camera 2015 Hilversum Canon Eddy van Wessel
The Zilveren Camera award is for press photography but has a number of categories, including 'Nature and environment', 'sports', domestic and news abroad, etc.
Tags: Zilveren Camera 2015 Hilversum Canon Eddy van Wessel
The Death of Shaima, during a peaceful protest in Cairo 24Jan2015, by Egytian police forces; eye witnesses were prosecuted by the government trying to surpress legal action. The policeman who shot and killed Shaima was convicted to 15 years of hard labor but he went in appeal.
Tags: Zilveren Camera 2015 Hilversum Canon Eddy van Wessel
The prize-winning series by Eddy van Wessel, in the category 'Foreign News (Series)', is titled ' Sinjar, the fight for Highway 47'. The photos show how Iraqi-Kurdish peshmerga military forces and Yezidi fighters try to retake the Iraqi town of Sinjar from the Islamic State forces.
Tags: Zilveren Camera 2015 Hilversum Canon Eddy van Wessel