2022 Edition
French and foreign students voted (21,75%) for photo #20 taken on June 18, 2022 in Zamora (Spain) by César MANSO for AFP. The photo shows firefighters operating at the site of a wildfire in Pumarejo de Tera near Zamora, northern Spain. Firefighters continued to fight against multiple fires in Spain, one of which ravaged nearly 20,000 hectares of land, on the last day of an extreme heat wave which swept the country, with temperatures that peaked at 43 degrees. César MANSO, for the AFP, wins Gaze into the mind of 15 year olds 2022.
June 18, 2022 – Zamora, Spain – Firefighters operate at the site of a wildfire in Pumarejo de Tera near Zamora, northern Spain. Firefighters continued to fight against multiple fires in Spain, one of which ravaged nearly 20,000 hectares of land, on the last day of an extreme heat wave which swept the country, with temperatures that peaked at 43 degrees.© César MANSO - AFP
Reaction of César MANSO : « Quiero dar las gracias a todos los estudiantes por la elección de la fotografía y me complace ver que son conscientes de las consecuencias que tiene el cambio climático y de la necesidad del fotoperiodismo para mostrarlo. »
If the environment is once again at the heart of the concerns of young voters, they will also have been marked this year by the war in Ukraine. The conflict was represented within the selection by three photos. Together, the three shots collect 28,46% of the vote.
Sergei SUPINSKY’s photo came in second with 12,59 % of the vote (2 012 votes).
January 30, 2022 – Kyiv, Ukraine
A military instructor teaches civilians holding wooden replicas of Kalashnikov rifles, during a training session at an abandoned factory in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on January 30, 2022.
Aris MESSINIS’s photo came in third with 9,97 % of the vote (1 593 votes).
June 5, 2022 – Droujkivka, Ukraine
An elderly woman, with a cat on her shoulder, tries to clean her yard of debris after a missile strike that killed one old woman in the city of Droujkivka in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas.
If the goal of the device is to allow each student of 3rd to look at the news throughout the world, it is also and above all to take the pulse of a generation that will make the democracy of tomorrow, guarantor of freedom!
The 2022 selection
Key figures for the 2022 edition
16000
students
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10
countries
Between July and September 2022, all around the world, teachers worked with their pupils on the selection of Gaze into the mind of 15 year olds. Close to 16,000 young people took part in the vote!
Students from Germany, Anguilla (Bristish oversea territory), Austria, Spain, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Senegal and Tunisia participated in the operation.
In France, schools from 61 departments participated: Ain, Aisne, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes, Ardennes, Aveyron, Calvados, Charente, Charente-Maritime, Cher, Corrèze, Côte-d’Or, Côtes-d’Armor, Creuse, Dordogne, Doubs, Drôme, Eure, Finistère, Gard, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Ille-et-Vilaine, Indre-et-Loire, Isère, Jura, Landes, Loir-et-Cher, Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Manche, Mayenne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Morbihan, Nièvre, Nord, Oise, Orne, Pas-de-Calais, Puy-de-Dôme, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Rhône, Haute-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, Haute-Savoie, Paris, Seine-Maritime, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Deux-Sèvres, Somme, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Vaucluse, Vendée, Vosges, Yonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne, Val-d’Oise.
Over seas, schools of French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Martinique have also voted.