Nouvelles d’Europe to Launch Online Covid-19 Photography Exhibition

Europe’s largest and most influential Chinese media group, is creating a unique and ambitious photography exhibition to demonstrate the effects, and severity of COVID-19 in which people have been affected by and continue to be. Organised by Nouvelles d’Europe, the ‘2020 Life in the Pandemic’ photography exhibition will invite submissions from across Europe to submit up to three photographs and alongside a short description to express the meaning depicted in the photo. Focus on three core themes:

Hold together and help each other
A new normal life
Our home during the pandemic

Following, the submissions will be judged and the best will be featured in the online exhibition from 17/01/2021 to 01/05/2021. Nouvelles d’Europe aims to create this online exhibition, with diversity at the core, being targeted across a multi-national basis where stories from different nationalities can be expressed and heard. The aim of the event is to create social awareness around the pandemic and display every individuals’ lives and emotions through the photographs, also to ensure the future generations will be able to understand this extraordinary period by visual means.

Frank Li, the deputy general manager of Nouvelles d’ Europe UK branch, commented: “As a member of the press, we are hoping to give people comfort and hope through this photo competition. Also to capture this significant historical moment of how people in Europe help each other and still stay positive during the COVID-19 pandemic”.

Shortlisted photos will be published on the official exhibition website and its Instagram account, in the order of submission with the award announcement on 05/02/2021. Open to the public aged 18 years old or above, photos must conform to the anti-epidemic theme and photos should be taken in the UK or Europe between 01/01/2020 and 15/01/2021. Submission may also be taken on any medium i.e. camera/phone, provided they meet the criteria above, and must be submitted between 01/12/2020 and 15/01/2021. As Li further emphasised, the pandemic is a shared and individual experience for all communities, we are aiming to reflect this extraordinary historical moment through a broad range of photographs and stories.

Full details can be found on the website：http://exhibition.chinaminutes.com.