SOTIRI
International Prize
for Young Photographers
 

Aleksandra Stepanova, Moldova: Thirst of life

My republic Transnistria is in an instable political and economic situation. Many people suffer from violence. But as for me the most terrible is the violence over the nature because it cannot answer. Therefore I wish to name my photo-project "The Nature is silent". To me it is sad when I see, how people scoff and will cripple the nature. The nature silently suffers all cruelty and violence over self.
When people live in poverty, they use the nature only as a source of incomes, forgetting about its beauty and fragility.
By means of this photo I wish to give to the Nature a voice. I wish to give for the Nature a chance to tell about itself, to show as it painfully. The mankind senselessly destroys all round itself. I want to stop people and give them a chance to think of that occurs on the Earth.