Reunion students photograph their Island’s tourism attraction

From September last year until May this year, pupils from eleven participating schools across Reunion Island were taking pictures to portray and showcase their island as seen through their eyes and camera lenses. The focus of the competition was to demonstrate how relevant tourism was on the island for jobs and how high school students understood and interpreted their own ideas and matched them with pictures.

Over 60 of the pictures submitted came in to the final selection after meeting the criteria set by the organizers of the photo competition:

• the artistic quality of the image,
• originality of shooting,
• matching the theme of the competition,
• the emotion created by the photograph, and
• the authenticity of the image produced.

Each participating institution had to select three visuals to convey to the jury, which has designated three winners at the end of the deliberations.

The first prize was awarded to the High School Pierre Poivre in St. Joseph, the second prize to the Louis Payen School in St. Paul, and the 3rd prize went to the Evariste Parny High School also in St. Paul.

The individual winners were Stephanie Marie Morel and Louis Pierre Poivre who won a helicopter tour across the island, with first runners-up being Marie and Wendy Panechou Bominthe from the Lycee Louis Payen, who won a leisure activity choice for two people. Second runners-up were Alix and Emma Louise Drouin Riquel from the High School Evariste Parny who won a guided tour of their choice.