(ANSAmed) – SARAJEVO, APRIL 16 – Bosnian youths aged six to 25 until May 1 can take a picture of Bosnia Herzegovina to present it to Italy and the EU in a competition to win photography and communication courses, digital cameras and a trip to Italy.
The initiative, launched by the Italian embassy and presented in Sarajevo, is part of the program ‘Month of Italian photography in Bosnia Herzegovina’, in cooperation with the European Delegation, UNICEF office and Mission OSCE.
As stressed by Ambassador Nicola Minasi in the opening press conference, ”it is a way of creating bridges between youths and helping them approach the EU while the new European strategy on the Western Balkans is being launched”.
Participants are divided into four categories, including three individual ones and one reserved to a class or groups of classes for one school. The photos can portray landscapes, monuments, food, people or artwork and must be sent to the email address mojabihphoto@gmail.com, and will be published by the embassy on its Facebook page Embassy of Italy in Bosnia and Herzegovina – and on Twitter @ItalyinBiH.
The regulations and promotional videos are already available on the embassy’s profiles and YouTube. Made by well-known comedians Damir Niksic and Zenit Ozi, who also attended the press conference with the other institutions participating in the initiative.
