Nektarina Visual Essay

Nektarina is a non for profit organization established to raise funds for knowledge development projects, campaigns, events and ideas that will help people improve their lives and communities. Our main areas of interest are children, women, minorities and environment. Through our projects we aim to raise awareness, promote ideas, initiate thinking and trigger action.
In January 2010 we started our first Visual Essay Contest, with the following objectives:

1- Engaging youth into learning about specific topic important for the community / environment, education, Roma integration/ ;

2 - Acquiring visual research skills in gathering references from life, photographs, found objects, imagination, and memory;

3 – Expressing thoughts in creative visual style that should be a learning tool for others;

4 – Learning and applying the stages of visual thinking/problem solving/research/thumbnails/roughs/comprehensives;

5 - Analyzing illustrations in terms of colour interpretation, the use of typography, layout and composition.

Proposed topics were environment, minorities, learning, human rights...

We sent out participation invites to over 300 schools and institutions in Europe and the world, and hereby we present you the essays we received.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Crime Scene / Environment

Applicant: JAKUB FILINGER
Age: 23

Country: POLAND

Chosen Topic: Environment

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The end justifies the means

Author: JAKUB GELTNER

Age: 28

Country: CZECH REPUBLIC

Chosen Topic: Environment

Short description of the essay: Power of human kind transformated by the use of deadly machines.

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Author: JAKUB GELTNER

Age: 28

Country: CZECH REPUBLIC

Chosen Topic: Environment

/Short description of the essay:/ Visual description of open-cast mine in west part of czech republic. Cold and dramatic atmosphere in industrial zone.

The Wall

Author: JAKUB GELTNER

Age 28

Country: CZECH REPUBLIC

Chosen Topic: Environment

Short description of the essay: In my visual essay I deal with problematics of panels settlement. What is the future and perspective of these habitation units?

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Plebeian Courtyard

Author: JAKUB GELTNER

Age: 28

Country: CZECH REPUBLIC

Chosen Topic: Environment

Short description of the essay: What is the future and perspective of panel buildings?

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Recycling Cycle

Authors: JOSIP BOTA / Age 27

JELENA BALIC / Age 21

Country : CROATIA

Chosen Topic: Environment / Recycling

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Recycled Dress

Author: MARIOLA WROBEL

Age: 21

Country: POLAND

Chosen Topic: Environment, Climate Change, Recycling

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A tree

Author: SENKA MRSIC

Age: 32

Country: CROATIA

Chosen Topic: Environment

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Maati

Author: NAVEEN KIRAN BOKTAPA

Age: 25

Country: INDIA

Chosen Topic: Environment

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Minorities / Skin Color

Author: ALEKSANDAR OSTOJIĆ

Age: 18

Country: MONTENEGRO

Chosen Topic: Minorities/Human Rights

Note: The author did entire production himself - idea, cinematography, editing, music composing and playing sound editing

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Lifelong

Author: LIDIA SAJDAK

Age: 29

Country: POLAND

Chosen Topic: Learning as a lifelong process

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Refinement

Author: PAWEL MAKSYMOW

Age:

Country: POLAND

Chosen Topic: Minorities / Human Rights

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Iron (ferrous) person

Author: PAWEL MAKSYMOW

Age:

Country: POLAND

Chosen Topic: Environment

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