2015 September 6th, in Alytus City Hall Square an attempt to capture the "most massive photographers crowd” record was successful. To this event registered more than 600 participants. Everyone using his favorite photographing technique could choose one of the available photographing topics: 1) Search of old Alytus; 2) Alytus - Europe - The World; 3) Street Photography; 4) Alytus - green city; 5) Alytus in different way; 6) Before opening the highest pedestrian and cyclist bridge in Lithuania "White Rose"; 7) Alytus - Sporty city.Photos of the participants must be sent to event organizers till 19th of October.
The jury will select the best works in all the 7 themes and announce the winners on AMS website (www.alytus.lt), and in the other annals of the city.During the event, organized by the Association “Alytus Photographers Club "and PI “Motivators LT” with Stasys Šmigelskis and Juozas Adomaitis, Alytus City Community Center, Public Health Office and the Europe Direct Information Centre with their leader and ambassador of the Year for Development Nijolė Vitienė prepared their information stands. Europe Direct Information Centre in their stand introduced the topic of development cooperation. European year for development ambassador Nijolė Vitienė has plenty of experience in development cooperation. She shared her experiences, insights, and encouraged the audience to be interested in development cooperation, its objectives and benefits also she handed out booklets to the participants and organized quizzes for little ones.To this information stand and record fixation has joined Alytus College of International Studies students from India, Congo, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. Two authors of best pictures in theme "Alytus - Europe - The World", which is supervised by the European year for development Ambassador Nijolė Vitienė, will be invited to travel to the European Parliament in Brussels by European Parliament member Vilija Blinkevičiūtė. The third place winner in this theme will receive Alytus Europe Direct Information Centre gift.
