The Fine Arts Sector announced the winners of the two prizes for the acquisition of the Museum of Modern Art for Youth Salon, session 32, which were won by: the artist Mohamed Amin Al-Tohamy in the field of photography, and the artist Mostafa Farraj Rabeh in the field of graphics.
The Youth Salon opened its 32nd session, in the presence of the Minister of Culture, Dr. Khaled Sorour, Head of the Fine Arts Sector, Dr. Emad Abdel Nabi Abu Zeid, Chairman of the Screening and Arbitration Committee, and a group of artists, critics and those interested in plastic art, at the Arts Palace in the Cairo Opera House.
Nearly 196 artists participated in this session with a total of 210 artworks in various fields of plastic art, which include "sculpture, ceramics, photography, drawing, graphics, installation in space, media arts, and digital arts", and a number of plastic artists won awards as follows :
The grand prize is 50 thousand pounds, and it was won by Ahmed Mansour and Yara Yasser Makkawi.
Salon prizes and the value of each prize is 30 thousand pounds: the field of photography is divided equally between Ahmed Shaaban Abu Al-Ela and Ahmed Abdel Hamid Al-Shafei, the field of sculpture is divided equally between Menna Allah Adel Ahmed and Maysoon Mustafa Al-Zarba, the field of painting is divided equally between Sultan Ahmed Ahmed and Samiha Mohamed Tohamy, the field of ceramics is divided equally between Duaa Eid Ibrahim and Mahmoud Rushdi Jaber, the field of graphics equally between Amira Saad Mohammed and Rawda Nour El-Din Ali, the field of processing in the space equally between Alaa Abdel Qader Maghazi and Hajar Ahmed Sayed.