Opening day of UNEP childrens' paintings exhibition, June 3rd, 2007

Director of Tromsø University Museum, Ms. Marit Hauan (right) welcomes the previous Minister of Environment from Iran, Ms. Mjahsomeh Ebtekar to the museum.

The loveliest sunny weather raised the spirits of the occation, gently waving the flags as the winners arrived with their chaperons.

Artists from the youth culture centre KULTA entertained the arriving guests. Here are the jesters Vegard Krane, Åse-Lill Bjørklund and Johannes Eilertsen.

A representative from one of UNEP's partners gets carried away by performing artist Åse-Lill Bjørklund.

The Global Winner: Charlotte Sullivan (11) from Great Britain. Her painting was selected to the first prize among more than 13,000 others.

Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway, handed out the awards on behalf of UNEP. Here Ebtihal Mansoor from Bahrain recieves her prize as the winner for Western Asia.

Arvind Parasingh (11) from Suriname won the regional award for South–America and the Caribean. Like the other winners, he received prizes form UNEP’s partners. Some of them are seen here, along with UNEP director Achim Steiner, Norwegian Minister of Enbvironment Ms. Helen Bjørnøy, and Crown Prince Haakon.

The winners recieved prize money too, money that some of them think of spending on an education in Art.

The media showed great interest, so here winners and prominent guests pose for the cameras.

All photos are made by photoghrapher Adnan Icagic of Tromsø University Museum. The Musuem holds the copyrights.