Winners of NTDs Oil Painting and Photography Competitions

We now bring you the winners of NTD's Oil Painting and Photography Competitions, which concluded on Friday. These were the last two in this year's series of nine arts and culture competitions; let's take a look at the results.
A gathering of Chinese oil painters and photographers coming from around the world to compare, compete, and share their creations. Theyve been brought together by the combined final two of NTDs Global Competitions series in an event with great ambitions.

(Lijuan Nania, Competition Organizer)
The purpose for why we are doing this, we just want to bring the culture back, the traditional culture.

The award winners created artworks that contributed to this goal with their level of skill and depth of inner meaning. For the Chinese International Figure Painting Competition, the major winners were:

Li Yuan for Suffering In China, who received the Gold Award and $10,000 USD

Yi Zhen for New Costume and Fan Yiming for Tibetan Boy, who were each given a Silver Award and $3,000 USD.

The Gold Award winners for the Chinese International Photography Competition were:

Shum Shan Kwan who won in the Nature & Landscapes category with Serenity in a Remote Village

Shih-tsang Lai in the People & Portraits category for his Fleeting Time

Linrong Xie in the Society & Humanity category for his High Cost

And while there were no gold winners in the Architectures & Views category, competitor Edward Dai received a prestigious Special Award for his unique entry Rectifying Fa.

The title refers to concepts at the heart of the widespread Falun Gong spiritual practice one aspect of the traditional Chinese culture that this competition aims to bring forth, celebrate, and record for future generations.

(Edward Dai, Special Award Winner)

A photograph is like, to let people remember the history. That is the most point. History. We are making history. We let people remember the history.

Its the artists and organizers conviction that, thanks to such heartfelt artworks, the history and traditions they embody will not be soon forgotten. This is Ryan Mitchell for NTD, New York.

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