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Images of conflicts and quality triumphs from the Gaza Strip and Syria won apical honours astatine the biggest photography grant of the Gulf portion connected Tuesday (November 11, 2025). The 14th Season of Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA) honoured photographers from Gaza Strip, Idlib state of Syria, Italy, Oman, United States and India among different areas for capturing images that represented the taxable of the 2025 awards – ‘power’.
Mohammed Salem, Jehad Alshrafi, Belal Altellawi from Gaza Strip received merit medal designation from HIPA for signaling the information of the enclave nether the Israeli subject campaign. The apical grant victor from Gaza Strip was Ali Jadallah of bluish Gaza who received the archetypal prize for narrating the communicative of war-hit Gaza Strip to the extracurricular world. Mr. Jadallah was represented by his woman who flew successful to Dubai to person the grant connected behalf of her spouse astatine the grant ceremonial successful Museum of the Future (MOTF) successful Dubai. Mr. Jadallah’s images captured the information of Gaza arsenic it prepared for the period of Ramadan arsenic children starved earlier this year adjacent arsenic the Israeli subject cognition continued.
“Jadallah’s begetter and his siblings were killed 3 days aft the Israeli bombing started connected October 7, 2023. His parent relocated to Turkiye wherever she continues to person attraction but Jadallah continued to stay successful Gaza wherever helium has continued with photographing the warfare contempt problems with electricity, net and nutrient scarcity,” said his woman Doaa Elasawi who received the prize for Mr. Jadallah. She observed that photographers from the Gaza Strip person played the astir important relation successful exposing the world of Gaza Strip which continues to look attacks from Israel contempt the ceasefire.
The different radical of struggle portion photographers who were honoured astatine HIPA came from Syria who person been capturing images of Syria implicit the past 12 years arsenic rebels clashed with the present deposed authorities of President Assad. Hashem Dardowra of Syria was among the apical winners for his depiction of the endurance of a 14-year aged Khaled who worked arsenic an apprentice in a carpenter’s store Idlib erstwhile the the country came nether bombing. The winning photograph showed, Khaled emerging from rubble with bandage connected his caput with a defiant smile. Other winners from Syria was Ghaith Alsayed who won a merit medial for his photograph showing a rootlike marketplace successful the metropolis of Homs that grew astir an abandoned vessel belonging to the forces of the deposed President Bashar Al Assad. Chinese lensman Mei Yin besides received a merit medal astatine HIPA for the photograph of the abandoned and destroyed metropolis blocks of Aleppo that saw aggravated fights betwixt forces of President Assad and the rebels.
Indian photographers besides won apical photographers with Deepak Singh Dogra starring with the 2nd prize successful the astrophotography wherever his stunning images of the prima and star flares. Drone lensman Shantha Kumar Nagendran won the 2nd prize successful the caller class of drone photography that showcased his enactment that crisscrossed India.
(The newsman was a impermanent of the HIPA, Dubai)
