Submitted by: copyright Ulrich Eigner

Country: Austria

Organisation: Light for the World

Category: Professional

Caption: A young Ethiopian ophthalmologist examines a patient during an ophthalmic outreach. He uses his mobile phone as flashlight.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Dickson Charles

Country: India

Organisation: Sightsavers

Category: Professional

Caption: Healthy eyes for safe driving @ Eyes OK Please

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Emmanuel Appiagyei

Country: Ghana

Organisation: Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Eye Centre - Kumasi, Ghana

Category: Amateur

Caption: Young boys after getting access to free eye examination in their village

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Soumyabrata Roy

Country: India

Organisation: Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math

Category: Professional

Caption: We should learn from these children....Their sister is sick, but they are closer than before.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Ajith S

Country: India

Organisation: Directorate of Health Services, Kerala

Category: Professional

Caption: \'The smile of getting corrected \'

Mrs.Subbammal aged 88yrs is on her way to better vision after cataract surgery, with a smile.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Ellen Crystal

Country: Canada

Organisation: Seva Canada

Category: Professional

Caption: A young girl receives eye surgery in Northern Ethiopia. The majority of the world’s blind are women and girls.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Anthony Minassian

Country: U.S.A

Organisation: Hawaiian Eye Foundation

Category: Professional

Caption: Child about to go into a consultation with the surgeons waits outside the

Myanmar Eye Hospital.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Dorin Pop

Country: Romania

Organisation: Without organisation

Category: Amateur

Caption: Nikon D7100,

F-stop 2.8

Max. Aperture 2.8

Focal Lenght 70.0 mm

Exposure Time 1/640 s

ISO 100

White Balance manual

Flash no

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Anthony Minassian

Country: U.S.A

Organisation: Hawaiian Eye Foundation

Category: Professional

Caption: Child about to go into a consultation with the surgeons waits outside the

Myanmar Eye Hospital.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Tiko Bedinashvili

Country: Georgia

Organisation: no organisation

Category: Amateur

Caption:

The sight is the most important and indispensable for everyone. Nowadays, many people have vision problems caused by health or other reasons.

My photo is thematic because of my country. I live in Georgia and there was a big mess in my country a few months ago. And that\'s because 20% of my country is occupied by Russia. A few weeks ago Georgian youth were on strike, We were protesting the occupation. Unfortunately, the authorities dispersed the action with rubber bullets. Three young men lost their eyes in the war of rubber bullets. This is a very painful issue for us. The young person should not lose sight just because they need freedom. They lost their eyes because they were protesting the common pain of the country. They still stand to defend the country and now with only one eye thought with great hope.

With this photo, I wanted to show the pain of my country and the youth. This is not only happening in my country.

The inscription in Georgian (იმედი-hope) is also symbolic. This is a sign that people should never give up. Because fighting always makes sense. hope dies last. The occupation can be seen with one eye......

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Cath Cartman

Country: UK

Organisation: N/A

Category: Professional

Caption: A woman sits on a park bench reading her book.

Shot on 35mm film.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Aeesha Malik

Country: UK

Organisation: LSHTM

Category: Amateur

Caption: Preparing for cataract surgery in Pakistan

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Pawan Baral

Country: Fiji

Organisation: The Fred Hollows Foundation New Zealand

Category: Amateur

Caption: Examining a child\'s eye with Arclight

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: ARUN C.A

Country: India

Organisation: Chaithanya Eye Institute, Palarivattom, Kochi, Ernakulam

Category: Amateur

Caption: \"Insightful comradeship made over blacks and whites\"

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Louise Harris

Country: United States of America

Organisation: Orbis International

Category: Amateur

Caption: A young patient in Ethiopia patiently waits for surgery onboard the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital to fix his strabismus.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Laurine Nuij

Country: Netherlands

Organisation: Eye Care Foundation

Category: Amateur

Caption: Taken to the cafe by his grandchild to drink a glass of tea

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Harry Wood

Country: United Kingdom

Organisation: YWAM

Category: Professional

Caption: \'Simplistic Essentials\'

An optometrist travels by small boat to a remote village in Papua New Guinea.

With a bag of simplistic hand-held tools and glasses, she changes lives by giving back essential vision.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: NIMAI CHANDRA GHOSH

Country: India

Organisation: SELF

Category: Professional

Caption: THIS MAN HAVE NO VISION AT ALL, HE IS SPEAKING TO HIS DEAR ONE.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Dr Said H Gedi

Country: Somalia

Organisation: Somali Ophthalmological Society

Category: Professional

Caption: Free Cataract Surgical Campaigns

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Pole Ramrao Raosaheb

Country: India

Organisation: VisionSpring

Category: Professional

Caption: Grand mother very Happy

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Klienne Eco

Country: Philippines

Organisation: Framed Shots Camera Club

Category: Professional

Caption: Always remember for those wearing a reading glass. Remove always the eyeglasses while resting or sleeping.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Dr.Elesh Jain

Country: India

Organisation: Sadguru Netra Chikitsalaya, Shri Sadguru Seva Sangh Trust

Category: Amateur

Caption: Cataract Patient Interacting with Nurse during care

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Geoff Oliver Bugbee

Country: United States

Organisation: Orbis

Category: Professional

Caption: “This makes my heart swell,” were the words George spoke as his eye was being patched up after cataract surgery onboard the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital. “I’m a carpenter, and all these years I’ve put up doors, do some moulding and patch the ceilings.” George was the provider for his family for decades but after his vision started to slip away, so did his ability to stay on the job.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Ghayyoor Alam

Country: Pakistan

Organisation: Ex. Alcon Novartis

Category: Amateur

Caption: Vision Screening Camp in School

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Hendra Saltra ES

Country: Indonesia

Organisation: HKI

Category: Amateur

Caption: eye test in elemntary school. in North Toraja, Indonesia.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Ai Chee Yong

Country: Malaysia

Organisation: Ranu Eye Specialist Centre

Category: Professional

Caption: Bringing services closer to underprivileged community

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Dr Suresh Rasaily

Country: Nepal

Organisation: Rapti Eye Hospital

Category: Amateur

Caption: Happy face after sight restoring cataract surgery in free surgical camp.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Anthony Minassian

Country: U.S.A

Organisation: Hawaiian Eye Foundation

Category: Professional

Caption: Child about to go into a consultation with the surgeons waits outside with his

mother.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: amitava chandra

Country: India

Organisation: Govt. service

Category: Amateur

Caption: Batch-mates in the hostel are in close interaction

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: amitava chandra

Country: India

Organisation: Govt. service

Category: Amateur

Caption: while mask represents the alienation, the eyes reflect the nature-within the soul

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Geoff Oliver Bugbee

Country: United States

Organisation: Orbis

Category: Professional

Caption: Simulation training in manual small incision cataract surgery in the operating room onboard the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Dr. A.A.M. Azard

Country: Sri Lanka

Organisation: Doctor

Category: Amateur

Caption: “Through the corrected vision, to correct a vision.”

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Hendra Saltra ES

Country: Indonesia

Organisation: HKI

Category: Amateur

Caption: eye care for everyone

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Jegannathaan JN

Email: itsmejegan@gmail.com

Country: INDIA

Organisation: Lions Club of Dharmapuri Town

Category: Professional

Caption: \"Hope for a better vision\", an old lady who is partially visual impaired, waits for her

turn to get her eyes screened at a eye screening camp organized by a NGO at nerupur a remote village in tamilnadu.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Rabindea Adhikary

Country: Nepal

Organisation: Better vision Foundation, Nepal

Category: Amateur

Caption: Checking the back of the eye with an ophthalmoscope

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Arman E Barbuco

Country: United States

Organisation: Samahan ng mga Litratista sa Rizal

Category: Amateur

Caption: In this modern world we should learn not to abuse our eyes using computers and other electronic devices that can affect our eyes. If we get tired, get some rest so that our eyes won\'t get strain.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Shahnaz Parveen

Country: Bangladesh

Organisation: Biomedical Researcher & Biotechnologist at Self

Category: Amateur

Caption: \"Look the world right in the eye\"

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Farouk Garba

Country: Nigeria

Organisation: Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

Category: Amateur

Caption: Eye Health in Almajiri Community

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Hamza Qureshi

Country: India

Organisation: Aditya Jyot institute of optometry

Category: Amateur

Caption: Optometrist to eradicate preventable blindness and support visually impaired . #SupportOptometrists

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Geoff Oliver Bugbee

Country: United States

Organisation: Orbis

Category: Professional

Caption: Dr. Doug Fredrick, Orbis volunteer faculty, leads his hands-on trainee physicians through a complex strabismus surgery.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Jay Sebastian

Country: Philippines

Organisation: Focus Bulacan

Category: Professional

Caption: \"The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be

full of light.\" -Matthew 6:22

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Dickson Charles

Country: India

Organisation: Sightsavers

Category: Professional

Caption: One solution can create million smiles

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Dr ADITYA SETHI

Country: INDIA

Organisation: Arunodaya Charitable Trust

Category: Amateur

Caption: ALL WE NEED IS A SMILE!

A Patient of Glaucoma looks at the brighter side of life with a smile at an outreach camp held in Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Rehan Momin

Country: India

Organisation: Student

Category: Professional

Caption: Performing RGP Lens fitting by SLIT-LAMP with Florence, cobalt blue filter.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Surve Abhidnya Arun

Country: India

Organisation: All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Category: Amateur

Caption: It is not only about the glasses but also the colors!!!!! VISION FIRST

An 18-month-old with anisometropic amblyopia wearing glasses. The difference in the reflex between the two eyes is evident.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Allan Castañeda

Country: Philippines

Organisation: Lens Nation Photography Club

Category: Professional

Caption: Eye checkup during the free medical mission

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Дарья

Country: Россия

Organisation: нет

Category: Amateur

Caption: без очков всё вокруг - лишь живописные картины с потёкшей акварелью по листу, с краской, что растворилась в капле воды, оставляя пятна.

иногда человек рождается с таким видением, так называемого \"творца\", а иногда сам себя доводит до \"потёкшей акварели в глазах\".

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Abolfazl jafarian

Country: Iran

Organisation: None

Category: Amateur

Caption: My father who has eye problem is cleaning his eye.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Дана

Country: Russia

Organisation: School 652

Category: Amateur

Caption: without glasses, without seeing the world, you can be happy

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019

Submitted by: Alireza Eslampoor

Country: Iran

Organisation: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Khatam-al-Anbia Eye Hospital

Category: Amateur

Caption: Happy congenital glaucomatous Dadi & Daughter.

Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019