Photo Competition
Oct 02, 2009 
With nearly 700 submissions from more than 50 countries around the world, the Legatum Center's 2009 photo competition brought in an inspiring collection of women's entrepreneurial success stories from around the world.
The competition, titled Women's Entrepreneurship: Empowerment through Innovation, sought photographs of women in low-income countries engaging in entrepreneurial activities and demonstrating innovative uses of technologies.
The Legatum Center Photo Competition was open to amateur and professional photographers from all over the world and consisted of 4 tracks: Global, Spotlight - India, Spotlight - Kenya, and Spotlight - Mexico. Winners and honorable mentions, selected by a jury of international development experts, photographers, and women's entrepreneurship experts, are displayed here.
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Winners
Global: Johan Ensing, After the Fishing
Spotlight India: O.P. Soni, Progress
Spotlight Kenya: Jennifer Waringa Muiruri, Cell
Spotlight Mexico: Laurencia Tobías, Berenice, Mujer Purépecha
Honorable Mentions
Clare Arni, India, Slum Woman Making Plastic Jewelry
Bata Bhurji, India, The First Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of Mauritania Installing Solar Lighting Systems
Supriya Biswas, India, Woman with her Clay Industry
Ilidio Matusse, Mozambique, Women First Participants with Bikes
Garth Cripps, United Kingdom (photo of Madagascar), Lucrative Love Medicine
Linda Cullen Weiley, United States (photo of Afghanistan), Cooking by Solar
Sandip Das, India, Hori Potter
Lucero González Luque, Mexico, La Rueca de Ernestina
Md. Kamrul Hasan, Bangladesh, Wheel of Change
Riaan Labuschagne, South Africa, Happy in Business
Praveen Manikpuri, India, Women as Entrepreneur
Gautam Pandey, India, Togetherness
Jashim Salam, Bangladesh, Grazing in the Mustard Field