The award ceremony of the Martyr Mustafa Cambaz Photography Contest, organized by Yeni Şafak newspaper for the second time this year, was held at Büyük Çamlıca Mosque 1071 Congress and Event Hall.
TBMM Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş, Minister of Trade Ömer Bolat, Albayrak Group Board Chairman Ahmet Albayrak, Albayrak Group Board Deputy Chairman Nuri Albayrak and Yeni Şafak Editor-in-Chief Hüseyin Likoğlu, as well as Mustafa Cambaz's son Alparslan Cambaz and his wife Semra Cambaz and award recipients attended the ceremony held in memory of July 15 martyr Mustafa Cambaz.
The ceremony, presented by TVNET Program Presenter Cüneyt Özdemir, began with the Quran recitation by Alpcan Çelik, the imam of Beşiktaş Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa Mosque.
Speaking at the ceremony, Minister of Trade Ömer Bolat stated that Mustafa Cambaz was a lover of Turkey and Istanbul and said, "He fearlessly and bravely took to the streets on the evening of July 15 and surrendered his soul to treacherous bullets in Çengelköy. He was a cheerful and pleasant person. He had bravely set out to support this struggle. Thanks to brave citizens like our brother Mustafa Cambaz, we woke up to a bright morning on July 16." Bolat stated that he had been a colleague with Mustafa Cambaz for 17 years and said, "He would go to every task and run. He was both a journalist and a photographer. He also dealt with technical matters. He loved to feed cats as a sunnah of our Prophet, he would feed cats all around the building and he would not tolerate them. I remember our brother Mustafa Cambaz with mercy and respect. I congratulate all photography lovers who won awards in this valuable competition."
"He left us a very valuable work that is like a title deed of these lands called 'The Grand Mosques of Turkey'"
Yeni Şafak Editor-in-Chief Hüseyin Likoğlu also stated that Cambaz was a distinguished person who was passionate about photography, devoted himself to his profession and said, "Mustafa Cambaz, who photographed 118 grand mosques in various provinces and districts of Türkiye with great effort and sacrifices until the day he was martyred, and compiled them in a book called 'The Grand Mosques of Turkey', combined his passion for photography with his interest in history and left us a very valuable work that is like a title deed of these lands."
Likoğlu stated that they will take this competition organized in Cambaz's name further every year and make it the most prestigious award in the media world and said, "We will commemorate Mustafa Cambaz with such a meaningful competition, we will never forget him and we will never let him be forgotten."
"Our colleagues continue to work in the most difficult places in the world to engrave their visual memories in people"
The Competition's Selection Committee Chairman, Anadolu Agency Visual News Editor-in-Chief Fırat Yurdakul, stated that while evaluating the works participating in the competition, they tried to look through Mustafa Cambaz's eyes as well as their general principles and visual capabilities.
Yurdakul pointed out that Cambaz had carved his name into the history of the press with both his work and his courage and love of country, and noted the following:
"Today, many of our brave colleagues like him continue to work in the most difficult places in the world to engrave the truth in people's visual memories, like AA photojournalist Ali Jadallah, who lost 9 members of his family in Israeli bombs in the past weeks, or AA cameraman Muhammed Alul, who lost 4 of his children in Israeli bombings just a few days ago... When Mustafa Cambaz ran to the squares without any fear on the evening of July 15, two things were on his mind, just like his other colleagues. The first is to stand by the truth, and the second is to document the truth as a reporter."
Awards
The winners of the Martyr Mustafa Cambaz 2nd Photography Competition received their awards from the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Numan Kurtulmuş, Minister of Trade Ömer Bolat and Albayrak Group Chairman of the Board Ahmet Albayrak.
In the "News Photos That Left Their Mark on 2022" category, AA senior photojournalist Emin Sansar was awarded first place with his photo titled "Russia's Ukraine Attacks", AA freelance reporter Kahraman Bekcili was awarded second place with his "Coal's Tears" and Nadir Köksoy with his "Abdulhamid Han Super Moon" photo.
In the "Cultural and Historical Photographs" category, Esengül Alıcı won first place with her "Library", Murat Yılmaz with his "Bergama and Comet" and Hakan Yaralı with his "Hicaz Railway and the Last Steam".
In the "New Generation Photographs (Drone Shooting)" category, İsmail Coşkun won first place with his work titled "A Tank Convoy in Kiev Destroyed by Bayraktar TB 2", Hanife Koç won second place with her photograph "The Eye" and Hasan İçel won third place with his work "Oil Wrestling in Mud".
In the "New Generation Photographs (Mobile Phone Shooting)" categories, AA photojournalist Arif Hüdaverdi Yaman won first place with his work titled "Gölge", Murat Bakmaz won second place with his photograph titled "Vav" and Durmuş Ceylan won third place with his photograph "Torak".
In the "Complete the Story - Hagia Sophia Mosque Special Award" category, the award was given to Serdar Kıran with his photograph "Hagia Sophia Mosque".
The first place winner of each category received a prize of 75 thousand liras, the second place winner 40 thousand liras and the third place winner 20 thousand liras, while the "Complete the Story Special Award" was determined as 60 thousand liras.
A total of 600 thousand liras were awarded in the photography competition, which included four different categories and one special award.
The selection committee of the Martyr Mustafa Cambaz 2nd Photography Competition, which was organized to unite journalists working under difficult conditions in national and spiritual feelings and to encourage successful photography works on this occasion, included Anadolu Agency Visual News Publishing Director Fırat Yurdakul, as well as photographer Süleyman Gündüz, Reuters photojournalist Ümit Bektaş and Yeni Şafak photojournalist Sedat Özkömeç, photographer Gül Işık and calligrapher Mehmed Özçay.
Among the Anadolu Agency photojournalists whose works were exhibited within the scope of the competition are Şebnem Coşkun, Tayfun Coşkun, İsa Terli and Özkan Bilgin.
Source: Yeni Şafak
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