A ball in the game

Our country became a host of the 21st FIFA World Cup. The Darwin Museum dedicated a contest named “A ball in the game” to this important event. The sports topic was significantly broadened because a ball is played not only in football. There are many varieties of ball sports or ball games, including baseball, badminton, basketball, bowling, polo, tennis, volleyball, water polo, golf and many others. Of course, many animals enjoy playing similar games of their own or the games that they are taught by people.

Several hundreds of photographers, both amateurs and professionals, competed for the main prize of the competition - a new ultra-thin and mobile graphics tablet G640 provided by the XP-PEN company.

Chairman of the professional jury: Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts, head of the art-photo section at the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, Maksim Kireev. Other members of the jury were such talented and remarkable photographers as Sergey Saveliev, Aleksey Philonenko, Serge Golovach, Olga Kazantseva, Lisa Eshva and the photographers of the Darwin museum, Maria Tikhonova and Peter Bogomazov.

Nominations:

• Professionals playing ball-games
• Street and amateur games
• A ball for kids
• Animals playing

The competition winners:

Arseniy Semenov. Saint Petersburg. Street football. The competition winner

Maria Semenova. Mozhaysk. Stop the moment. The nomination winner

Alexander Romanov. Tyumen. Future forward. The nomination winner

Ruslan Tokhtiev. Moscow. Struggle. The nomination winner

The competition winners:

Sergey Kliucharev. The joy of playing. 

Slava Terebov. Cherepovets. Barsa! Barsa! 

Olga Fedoseyeva. Moscow. One ball and many players. 

Maria Dozortseva. Moscow. Goal scored.

Natalia Nazarova. Moscow.  The game. 

Konstantin Chubenko. Sofrino. Football fan. 

Alyona Potemkina. Moscow. Future footballer.