The Year of Biodiversity ‘Biodiversity: Connecting with Nature’

Children's Painting 'Biodiversity: Connecting with Nature'

The United Nations Environmental Programme (Unep) has designated 2010 as the Year of Biodiversity. The organisation, together with Bayer, invites children between the ages of 6 and 14 to enter the 19th International Children’s Painting Competition on the Environment.

This year’s subject is “Biodiversity: Connecting with Nature“. Global and regional winners will be awarded prize-money and other prizes, including a trip to the official award ceremony together with a chaperone.

Contemporary photography by Georges Rousse

As part of the annual French cultural festival, La Fête 2009, a visionary French artist and photographer visited Thailand for his first exhibition in the kingdom. Having developed powerful work by blending painting, drawing, sculpture and architecture since the 1980s, he transforms deserted spaces before they are destroyed.

Inspired by abandoned spaces, Georges Rousse has created his works of image to look like overlays of colour. Each photo is only viewable in its intended and precise focus.