这位自学成才的摄影师赢得了2019年的Agora大奖

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2019年11月17日

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Meet The Self-Taught Photographer Who Captured The Powerful Shot That Won The Agora Awards 2019 Competition

看看这位自学成才的摄影师，他拍下了震撼人心的照片，并赢得了2019年的Agora大奖

The Agora Awards 2019 competition was hosted by free-to-use photography app Agora on November 6th and received over 130,000 submissions from 193 countries.

由免费摄影应用Agora主办的2019年Agora大奖竞赛于11月6日举行，收到了来自193个国家的13万多份参赛作品。

More than 500,000 votes have been counted: the photo ‘Songs of Freedom’ by Ghanaian photographer Michael Aboya was voted Best Photo of the Year and wins Agora Awards 2019 competition, awarding the self-taught photographer the grand prize of $25,000 (22,445€).

超过50万张选票已经被统计:加纳摄影师迈克尔·阿比亚拍摄的照片《自由之歌》被选为年度最佳照片，并赢得了2019年Agora大奖，这位自学成才的摄影师获得了2.5万美元的大奖。

With photos portraying a cheerful and optimistic representation of the life around him, Michael Aboya aims to inspire a change in the way people perceive Ghana and the African continent in general:

Michael Aboya的照片描绘了他周围生活中令人愉快和乐观的一面，他的目标是激发人们改变对加纳和整个非洲大陆的看法:

“I believe that when BIPOC (Black and Indigenous People of Colour) tell their own stories, they can present the country and continent differently to the world, showing the love, peace, and harmony, and making the bright side a little bit more, putting the dark side behind it. I created this image to emphasize the fact that we have the power to free ourselves from any form of mental, physical, spiritual and emotional captivity.”

“我相信，当BIPOC(黑人和有色土著人)讲述他们自己的故事时，他们可以以不同的方式向世界展示这个国家和这个大陆，展示爱、和平与和谐，让光明的一面多一点，把黑暗的一面抛在身后。我创作这张照片是为了强调这样一个事实:我们有能力将自己从任何形式的精神、身体、情绪和情感的束缚中解放出来。”

Michael Aboya: The man behind the camera

迈克尔 Aboya:镜头后面的人

Michael is a 24-year-old self-taught photographer from Accra, Ghana. Born and raised in Nigeria, he moved to his father’s homeland, Ghana, when he turned 13.

24岁的迈克尔来自加纳的阿克拉，是一位自学成才的摄影师。他在尼日利亚出生长大，13岁时搬到了他父亲的家乡加纳。

Michael’s passion for arts and photography unfolded back in 2014 when he was studying software programming. When he abruptly lost his dad to cancer, he realized that life was too short to spend it doing something he didn’t enjoy and therefore decided to pursue his dream of becoming a photographer. Shortly after dropping out of programming school, Michael gathered all the little savings and funds he had at the time (those were meant to pay for his school fees) and got himself his first professional camera.

迈克尔对艺术和摄影的热情可以追溯到2014年，当时他正在学习软件编程。当他的父亲突然死于癌症时，他意识到人生苦短，不能把时间花在自己不喜欢的事情上，于是他决定追寻自己成为摄影师的梦想。从编程学校退学后不久，迈克尔就把当时仅有的一点积蓄和资金(本来是用来支付学费的)都攒了起来，买了自己的第一部专业相机。

“After I purchased my first camera, the next step was to join a photography school, but the fees made that impossible. So I invested a lot of time reading about photography and watching YouTube videos on how professional photographers shot and used different kinds of lighting to their advantage. I would then go out with my camera to practice by shooting anything I found interesting, and then go home and do some editing. I kept doing this over and over again until I gradually started getting good at it.”

“在我买了第一部相机后，我的下一步就是加入摄影学校，但付不起高昂的学费。所以我花了很多时间阅读关于摄影的书籍，观看YouTube上的专业摄影师如何拍摄和使用不同的灯光来发挥他们的优势的视频。然后我会带着相机出去练习，拍摄任何我觉得有趣的东西，然后回家做一些编辑工作。我一遍又一遍地做，直到我逐渐开始擅长它。”

With his $25,000 prize, Michael plans to invest in getting photography gear, learning videography, and travel through Africa to capture its people and their colorful stories.

带着2.5万美元的奖金，迈克尔计划投资购买摄影器材，学习视频摄影，并到非洲旅行，捕捉那里的人们和他们丰富多彩的故事。

‘From a long line of strong black women’

"从一些强壮的黑人妇女中选出的一位"

Michael celebrates the love he feels for his country through powerful photographs that portray a cheerful and optimistic representation of the life that surrounds him.

迈克尔通过强有力的照片来庆祝他对祖国的爱，这些照片描绘了他周围生活中令人愉快和乐观的一面。

‘Quality not quantity’

质量而不是数量