Hello everyone,
The first iteration of the Share Your Struggle campaign ran from 15 August
2021 and ran until 15 September, and gathered 600+ images
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Share_Your_Struggle_2021>
and 25+ videos
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos_from_Share_Your_Struggle_2021_%28to_review%29>
from
30+ participants. Apart from a CentralNotice banner across Wikimedia
platforms, focused outreach efforts helped to engage professional
photographers, photojournalists and social activist organizations such as Lok
Sangharsh Morcha
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=50&user=Lok+sangharsh&ilshowall=1>
and Narmada Navnirman Abhiyan
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=50&user=Nnnamaharashtra&ilshowall=1>
.
Five of the top ten images are related to the 2020-2021 Indian farmers’
protest
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Indian_farmers%27_protest>,
which has been going on for over one year at various borders of the
national capital, Delhi. Three images are related to the COVID-19 pandemic
and the lockdown <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_India>.
Three photographers (JK Photography, Ravan Khosa and TAPAS KUMAR HALDER)
have two photographs each in the top ten images.
Read the entire blog post here:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/11/30/winning-photographs-from-the-first-ev…
Thank you so much for your interest and participation. We will be reaching
out to the winners in the coming days.
- Satdeep (on behalf of the SYS team)