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With sorrow we are informing you that another very active member of our community has passed away: Jan Ostapkiewicz /Aimilianos/

Branislav Backović, Backo, master of photography FSS from Loznica, suddenly passed away last night at the Coronary Care Unit Internal Medicine Ward.
Backo will be remembered as a man of great energy, a good friend and photographer with numerous awards and recognitions.

The contest is dedicated to buildings monuments of Eastern Christian tradition, whose importance is too great and are part of the cultural heritage of all peoples of the earth. The Ι.Α.Ο. chose this particular time period, where humanity once again witnesses the destruction of cultural monuments by fanatical religious groups.

After a short Easter break we are back with the presentation of photos and authors that we have chosen in 2004. We remind you, that the editorial staff and previously selected winners, choose one photo per month.

The winner of May 2014 was Slawomir Kiryluk (slawek). His picture shows fresco in the church of Holy Spirit in Bialystok, which was then freshly made.

Today we are celebrating our anniversary. This time it is the Great and Holy Friday, 11th years ago it was Saturday around the time when Holy Light occurs.This is a good moment to say thank you, to all of you for your activity.

Preparing for the exhibition summarizing our activity, we have decided to choose one best photo from each month, from the very beginning. The photos will be chosen by winners of the other months and editorial staff. We do this since April 2004, when we created our site in the Internet. The first winner was Joanna Kolerska (asia_o).

Together with a letter of recognition from Metropolitan Sawa of Poland we also received a present in recognition of our efforts in illustrating the beauty of Orthodoxy.
We received financial support for our future activities. The money we received should help us organize a jubilee exhibition with pictures from our website. We hope to present the exhibition in parishes throughout Poland.

With this news we would like to ask you to verify your submission and ask you to help us with collecting photos from other countries (you can send more photos even if you have already sent 5). We want to make our exhibition as wide as possible.

For all those who have already sent their pictures - thank you, and those who are late - we have good news! We have not managed to send the information to everyone in their own language, so we decided to extend the deadline for submission of work to 27 February.

We would like to finally start collecting photos for our 10th anniversary exhibition. We hope we can create something more than just an exhibition, maybe a photo album, calendar, fotocast or slideshow. The purpose is to present your photos offline and to reach more people.