Batelco Announces Winners of Bahrain Eye2 Photography Contest

January 5, 2015

**Winners Presented with Cash Prizes at Photo Exhibition**

Batelco’s second photographic competition, Bahrain Eye2, concluded successfully with a three day exhibition at Seef Mall, held under the patronage of the Capital Governor Shaikh Hisham bin Abdulrahman Al Khalifa. This Contest was run in partnership with the Capital Governorate, Seef Properties and Canon.

The contest proved to be very popular with Bahrain’s aspiring photographers who submitted over 1,700photos in six different categories:- Places in Bahrain, People in Bahrain, Nature and Wildlife in Bahrain, Tawasul (Communication), Underwater photography and Wa6ani (My Country). Over 200 photos were selected for display at the exhibition.

Prizes of cash and professional cameras were presented for the top three in each of the six categories, with BD200 for 1st place, BD150 for 2nd and Canon cameras for those placed third. The list of winners is as follows:-

People in Bahrain

  1. Mohammed Sadiq Al Asfoor
  2. Husain Abdulla Alsaeed
  3. Faeqa Jahromi

Nature

  1. Mohammed Sadiq Al Asfoor
  2. Deepak Sudhakaran
  3. Ahmed Altayeb

Places in Bahrain

  1. Hassan Ali Isa
  2. Sanaullah Albalushi
  3. Jerahmeel Mendoza

Tawasul

  1. Reem Salman
  2. Faeqa Jahromi
  3. Sayed Baqer Alkamel

My Country

  1. Sanaullah Albalushi
  2. Sayed Baqer Alkamel
  3. Huda Hussain

Underwater

  1. Mohammed Ali Hasan Ali

A number of side-line activities took place alongside the exhibition including the sale of displayed photos for charity by the Make Them Smile Youth Charity group. Additionally, the audience were encouraged to vote for the best photo with the opportunity to win raffle prizes.