Submitted by: Kayode ODUSOTE

Country: Nigeria

Organisation: HelpMeSee Inc

Category: Amateur

Caption: \"Now I am independent..can take care of my body myself, can count my money and not be cheated.......\" declares a happy lady the day after cataract surgery by the ophthalmologist sitting beside her.

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Submitted by: Anurag

Country: India

Organisation: Sirimiri

Category: Amateur

Caption: A young boy getting his dilated eye examination done from a retina expert.

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Submitted by: Andresito

Country: Colombia

Organisation: Universidad del Sinú

Category: Amateur

Caption: Jornada de salud visual en la Guajira. Colombia. Población indígena wayuú. Una madre sosteniendo los lentes de prueba a su hija miestras se le practica examen visual.

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Submitted by: Bruce Redman

Country: Australia

Organisation: Brien Holden Vision Institute

Category: Professional

Caption: Optometry Student Elizabeth performs an eye examination as part of the BHVI 2019 school screening project in Uganda.

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Submitted by: Lloyd Ericson Castro Rodriguez

Country: Philippines

Organisation: N/A

Category: Amateur

Caption: I met Manang upon fulfilling my pilgrimage in Guinarona Church, Dagami, Leyte and I noticed that her right eye was always closed. I asked her what happened to it and she told me that the said eye is getting blind due to cataract.

Cataract is known to be one of the main causes of blindness among elderly people and as she permitted me to take some frames of her eye condition, she also shared with me her high hopes that through my portraits of her, some one from somewhere who will be seeing her condition will share heartfelt generosity to help her before her eyesight completely succumbs to blindness.

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Submitted by: Farhat Yasmine

Country: INDIA

Organisation: Student

Category: Amateur

Caption: Refractive error is visually impaired...until its corrected

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Submitted by: Evgeny Stetsko

Country: Russia

Organisation: free lance photographer

Category: Professional

Caption: Ophthalmology Department of the Central clinical hospital in Moscow. Preparation for surgery.

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Submitted by: Rajesh Pandey

Country: India

Organisation: Self Employed

Category: Professional

Caption: Drops being given to dilate the pupils of an infant baby before the eye test to check for retinopathy of prematurity at the neonatal intensive care unit, Cuttack, Orissa, India

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Submitted by: BEKIR YESILTAS

Country: Türkiye

Organisation: PSA - ISF - GPU - CMOL

Category: Professional

Caption: a person who has been a tailor for many years and can no longer see in the light.

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

Submitted by: Nargis Akter

Country: Bangladesh

Organisation: Photobank

Category: Professional

Caption: Fisher man

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Submitted by: amitava chandra

Country: India

Organisation: Govt. service

Category: Amateur

Caption: Eyes play a vital-role in the performance of classical dance \"Kathakali\" in which the artist/performer express the movement and spirit through different manifestations of his eyes.

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Submitted by: Faezeh Aghazadeh

Country: Iran

Organisation: Albinism

Category: Amateur

Caption: Lovely albinism children

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Submitted by: Philip Lus

Country: Papua New Guinea

Organisation: Optician

Category: Amateur

Caption: Optician, Philip, screening an elderly man for Myopia to give him a reading glass in remote district of Angoram, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea

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

Submitted by: fauzia kanwar

Country: Pakistan

Organisation: LRBT

Category: Amateur

Caption: Outside the operation theater..

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Submitted by: Tiffany Clementson

Country: Guyana

Organisation: Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation

Category: Amateur

Caption: Ophthalmoloscopy

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Submitted by: Solomon Robert

Country: Nigeria

Organisation: Crispvison

Category: Professional

Caption: A teacher using a portable refractormeter

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Submitted by: Irfanullah Khan

Country: Pakistan

Organisation: PICO

Category: Professional

Caption: This picture was taken during a trachoma survey in Tanzania

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Submitted by: Liza

Country: India

Organisation: Bayer CropScience Limited

Category: Amateur

Caption: The happiness in threading a needle without asking for help symbolizes independence and the importance of #VisionFirst for many senior citizens across the globe

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Submitted by: Onyeka Amiebenomo

Country: Nigeria

Organisation: University of Benin

Category: Amateur

Caption: Look straight ahead so we can look into your eyes!

Vision screening at the school for the Intellectually disabled.

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Submitted by: Natrajan Vengadesan

Country: India

Organisation: Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry

Category: Amateur

Caption: I wonder what the doctor beyond my eyes

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

Submitted by: Dr Sonia Pant

Country: India

Organisation: VisionSpring

Category: Amateur

Caption: Moga, Punjab, a shopkeeper is able to maintain his business ledger and stock accounts without any difficulty with his glasses.

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Submitted by: Yazan Gammoh

Country: Jordan

Organisation: Eastern Mediterranean Council of Optometry

Category: Professional

Caption: The power of scleral lenses to manage vision impairment due to Keratoconus!

Image taken during scleral lens fitting training to Sudanese optometry students using IACLE resources. Keratoconus, a major cause of vision imapirment in adults in North Africa, is prevalent in Sudan and patients do not have access to scleral lenses due to lack of fitting skills by the practitioners.

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Submitted by: Ellen Crystal

Country: Canada

Organisation: Seva Canada

Category: Professional

Caption: Young blind boy with bilateral cataracts in Madagascar.

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

Submitted by: Solomon Robert

Country: Nigeria

Organisation: Crispvison

Category: Professional

Caption: The eyes tell more than words could ever say

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Submitted by: Rajan Shrestha

Country: Nepal

Organisation: BP Eye Foundation

Category: Amateur

Caption: Correcting Visual Impairment

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Submitted by: Rajan Shrestha

Country: Nepal

Organisation: BP Eye Foundation

Category: Amateur

Caption: No Vision, hard life; Ready to be enrolled in school for the first time

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

Submitted by: Bruce Redman

Country: Australia

Organisation: Brien Holden Vision Institute

Category: Professional

Caption: A BHVI screening in a Ugandan village in 2019 discovers an issue with a young boy's vision.

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

Submitted by: José Ignacio Valls Martínez

Country: Spain

Organisation: IluminaFrica

Category: Professional

Caption: Yes there is hope!.

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Submitted by: Joel Snyder, PhD

Country: United States

Organisation: Audio Description Associates, LLC-Audio Description Project of the American Council of the Blind

Category: Amateur

Caption: \"Anna\", a young girl with blond hair, uses a white cane at a workshop on audio

description and literacy at a National Federation of the Blind event in Atlanta,

Georgia in July 2004.

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Submitted by: Mel Muchnik

Country: USA

Organisation: VOSH/International

Category: Amateur

Caption: (note: 4 of 4 submitted from this year\'s VOSH student photo contest. Contact

for all is Mel Muchnik, PhD, FVI on VOSH/International Board

and Communications Team Leader.

Title indicates who submitted and country where this VOSH humanitarian clinic was held.

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Submitted by: Afaque Anwar & Kishor Sharma

Country: Nepal

Organisation: Biratnagar Eye Hospital

Category: Professional

Caption: School going children in queue for their eye check up

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Submitted by: Mahmudul Hasan Tushar

Country: Bangladesh

Organisation: Dr.K.Zaman BNSB Eye Hospital, Bangladesh

Category: Amateur

Caption: icamp

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Submitted by: Mikhail Kapychka

Country: Belarus

Organisation: MSU

Category: Professional

Caption: Successful toss after recovery of vision. Mogilev, Belarus

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Submitted by: Mel Muchnik

Country: USA

Organisation: VOSH/International

Category: Amateur

Caption: (note: 3 of 4 submitted from this year\'s VOSH student photo contest. Contact

for all is Mel Muchnik, PhD, FVI on VOSH/International Board

and Communications Team Leader.

Title indicates who submitted and country where this VOSH humanitarian clinic was held.

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Submitted by: ONGOM RUFINO

Country: Uganda

Organisation: AGAM

Category: Professional

Caption: JPG

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Submitted by: ibtesam abed hamel

Country: Iraq

Organisation: MOH

Category: Amateur

Caption: first vision in school in baghdad

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Submitted by: Iuliia Kalinina

Country: Russian Federation

Organisation: \"Idel\" Magazine

Category: Professional

Caption: Scene from the play about World War II. One of the actress is blind. Inclusive theatre in Kazan, republic of Tatarstan, Russia

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

Submitted by: Marie-Claire Boyle

Country: United Kingdom

Organisation: St John Eye Hospital

Category: Professional

Caption: Dr Omar performs cataract surgery on an elderly patient, Bahieh, whilst trainee Haneen looks on. Bahieh, has seen much of Palestine’s history take place. She remembers St John from when she was a child and she used to attend clinics with her father. One thing she can note from then until now is that ‘the quality of care has improved drastically in the past 50 years, this has been the most marked improvement in the hospital, and it is fantastic to see.’ #visionfirst

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Submitted by: Shivnaresh gupta

Country: Nepal

Organisation: Birta eye care

Category: Professional

Caption: Olde age refraction

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Submitted by: Rochelle Ann Agtay

Country: Philippines

Organisation: N/A

Category: Professional

Caption: The very bright eyes of this boy, taken in United Arab Emirates cultural exhibition reminds each and one of eyes the beauty of having a healthy eyesight. Taking care of our eyes starts now and not when time comes that deficiencies in its\' function starts to show.

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Submitted by: SAUMYA YADAV

Country: India

Organisation: ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, NEW DELHI, INDIA

Category: Amateur

Caption: 3 years old Priya all set for her second surgery. Priya had congenital Brown Syndrome for which she was operated at 1 year of age. Because of frequent visits to the hospital she grew accustomed to the environment and was very comfortable in the operation theater.

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Submitted by: Prashant

Country: India

Organisation: Nayonika eye care charitable trust

Category: Amateur

Caption: School eye health program - nayonika Makala Netra

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Submitted by: Ellen Crystal

Country: Canada

Organisation: Seva Canada

Category: Professional

Caption: These women have come to have their vision assessed at an outreach eye screening camp in Adet, 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: The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ

Country: New Zealand

Organisation: The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ

Category: Professional

Caption: Poufia rejoices with his great-grandaughter after a successful eye operation gave him back his sight, following 10 years of blindness. Photo taken in Savai\'i, Samoa by James Ensing-Trussel.

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Submitted by: ayse turan

Country: Turkey

Organisation: Ankara City Hospital

Category: Amateur

Caption: 2019 Sight Screening World Record 1379 students screened in 21 minutes

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Submitted by: shyama wargini

Country: SRILANKA

Organisation: SRILANK OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION

Category: Professional

Caption: screening camp for children. this is held at very small island in srilanka. living 100

family in this island .first time doing like this camp this village.

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Submitted by: Shyam Vyas

Country: NEPAL

Organisation: Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology

Category: Amateur

Caption: School screening at newly constructed school

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Submitted by: Patrick Dreuning

Country: The Netherlands

Organisation: Patrick Dreuning Photography

Category: Professional

Caption: My girlfriend just picked up her new pair of glasses while I took closer look to it I noticed that if I used my lens to focus though it, it still works! With this picture I would like to show the viewer the importance of the pair of glasses without this picture was not sharp at all.

Maastricht 2019.

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Submitted by: Rajesh Pandey

Country: India

Organisation: Self Employed

Category: Professional

Caption: Laser surgery on a preterm infant baby with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)

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Submitted by: Evgeny Stetsko

Country: Russia

Organisation: free lance photographer

Category: Professional

Caption: In 2017, the ophthalmologist and surgeon from Moscow Tatyana Avanesova realized her dream by creating her own Fund named Retina for the research and treatment of complex retinal diseases. The Retina Foundation does a great job of teaching surgeons the skills of modern surgery, new technologies and work on complex equipment. This is done through scientific conferences, seminars of luminaries of ophthalmology, as well as demonstration operations.

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