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Anuar Habibe wins International Martial Arts Photo Contest UNESCO

ORANJESTAD — Local photogra-
pher Anuar Habibe won the Inter-
national Martial Arts Photo Contest
from June 1-August 3, organized
by the International Centre of Mar-
tial Arts for Youth Development and
Engagement under the auspices of
UNESCO. Together with a selection
of photographers worldwide his
winning picture is part of a photo
book as well as the award winning
works exhibition in Chungju, Korea.
The theme of the contest is on Mar-
tial Arts.

“I was not familiar with martial arts
at all, but that is the challenge I see
in it as a creative. I did do some
work for Gregory Milliard, MMA
Champion and owner of a MMA
academy on the island”, Habibe
explains. When he read about
the contest he only had two more
weeks to enter his contribution.
Milliard’s academy was the first lo-
cation that crossed his mind, and
there it is where he took his shots.
The winning picture shows the girl Winning picture for the International Martial Arts Photo Contest
Iva Fernandez Pedra while she
is being prepared to go into the fluence on emotions.” His style is –in The local photographer did not re- screens”, he says modest.
cage to do her boxing training. his own words- story telling, docu- ceive any feedback from the gov-
mentary and street photography. ernment on his achievement, but Curious after more work from
Life is Art “Those are all related to each oth- luckily his Facebook post created Habibe, check out his Instagram:
Anuar Habibe is a stoked about er, I capture life moments, life that a lot of buzz in his surroundings and https://www.instagram.com/an-
culture. Besides his photography is happening now while I am work- many people congratulated him. habibe/. The location of the win-
he is the founder of Culturaruba, ing, walking, feeling and moving. “It is however never my goal to ning picture is https://www.face-
a platform for culture and art. My pictures are connected to psy- achieve attention, I just love what book.com/MilliardMixedMartialArt-
About ten years ago he dived into chology and sociology. They are I do and stay rather behind the sAcademy/. q
the world of photography and about people and their behaviors,
was even more passionate about our society and life.” To summarize
this art of expression after reading you could say that he shows you
books related to photography. “I ‘Art in everyday life’. “I show what
actually learned more than how to I feel and often people tell me
take pictures. Visual design, laws of their interpretation which is a big
perceptual organization and the compliment to me as that means it
theory of colors as well as their in- touched them.”