Indian wins poster award |
Anjali Chandrashekar, a New York-based designer and "artivist", won the third prize in UN Poster for Peace contest presented by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA) to raise awareness of the need for nuclear disarmament.Titled `Cutting Barriers through Peace`, the poster features a peace dove slicing through a nuclear weapon.She received her third-prize certificate from Ban at an award ceremony . Apart from the three winners, nine honorable mentions were chosen from among more than 4,100 entries representing 123 countries.The young artist was only 10 when she founded `Picture It`, a non-governmental organisation that uses imagery to raise awareness and funds for various health, humanitarian and environmental causes.Another poster `Break Free` by the Chennai girl, that shows doves flying out of a bird cage at the top of a nuclear weapon, received an honorable mention.Second place winner, 15-year-old Michelle Li, named her poster `Peace in our Hands`, which features a shadow puppet of a peace dove above a broken nuclear weapon.
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