Wiki Loves Monuments, which calls itself the world’s largest photograph competitors, has introduced the winners of its 2021 contest that showcases beautiful cultural heritage areas from throughout the globe.
Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 Competitors
This twelfth iteration of Wiki Loves Monuments noticed 172,000 entries from 4,914 candidates, 3,198 of which have been new to the competition. A global jury of specialists evaluated, reviewed, and ranked the 339 successful images based mostly on technical high quality, originality, and usefulness for Wikipedia. Winners for 2021 hail from 11 totally different nations. Some international locations, like Ukraine, Poland, and India, have a number of successful photographers.
The Wiki Loves Monuments competitors requires that photographers donate their photographs to Wikimedia Commons. These images can then be used on Wikipedia and the opposite Wikimedia tasks, permitting documentation of the world’s cultural treasures for current and future generations.
Quite than focus merely on magnificence, the Wiki Loves Monuments contest goes deeper.
“We think about it our accountability to make folks conscious of [the world’s] magnificence, and that it deserves to be shared by way of the eyes of the folks that have it day-after-day,” the competition’s organizers say. “We make the dedication to create the visuals that may illustrate the tales of those locations and convey them to life.”
In a current assertion, the jurors for 2021 emphasised the significance of cultural preservation worldwide, together with within the context of ongoing struggle in locations like Ukraine.
“The competitors has for over a decade labored in the direction of creating a singular visible document of locations that maintain cultural heritage worth, and we hope that these information can be utilized to assist preserve their tales alive, or restore any harm brought on, within the years forward,” they write.
“Our remaining alternatives embody photos of monuments positioned in international locations at present at struggle with different international locations. In all of the concerned international locations the Wikimedia Motion is current with Wikimedians and cultural actions within the intention of constructing human data obtainable to each individual on the planet,” the competitors explains.
“Cultural locations, and as an extension monuments, belong to every single human being on this planet. Each nation, no matter the place the monuments are positioned, is liable for preserving them; they don’t seem to be simply ‘the international locations’ monuments,’ they’re milestones of the entire human journey. We’re all merely the present custodians of those cultural websites and should work to make sure that they’re handed right down to the following generations.”
The 2022 Winners
The successful photograph of this yr’s competitors is proven under and is titled “Royal Portuguese Cupboard of Studying” and was captured in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Donatas Dabravolskas.
Dabravolskas lives solely quarter-hour away from the Royal Portuguese Cupboard of Studying however solely got here to know concerning the place from a social media put up, which motivated him to go to and take a bunch of images.
Under are the opposite 9 successful images from the competitors:
All ten winners in addition to detailed details about the photographers and the areas will be discovered on the Wiki Loves Monuments web site.
