Building BRICS: BRICS Media Forum launches photo exhibition in Cape Town

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Turning to South Africa. A new photo exhibition has been unveiled at the BRICS Media Forum in Cape Town. The event has attracted key figures from the BRICS business council. The exhibition is intended to resonate with the theme of the upcoming leaders' meeting and promote a shared global future among BRICS members. CGTN's Travers Andrews was there.

With a combined population of over 3 billion people, the media sectors within BRICS member nations have a huge responsibility to report the news to almost half of the world's population, it's an incredible challenge.

But it's a challenge media entities within BRICS are certainly up for, that's according delegates attending this year's 3rd BRICS Media forum, who focused on many key issues including furthering existing partnerships.

IQBAL SURVE, EXECUTIVE CHAIRPERSON BRICS MEDIA FORUM "We are sharing news content via our agencies, so in South Africa's case the African News Agency has partnered with Xinhua and has also partnered with Russian News Agency and Indian News agency, so that's the first point of co-operation, secondly we can share ideas in terms of technology transfer in the new media space."

As part of this years media forum, over 180 media professionals and key decision makers also attended a photo exhibition by various of press photographers. 98 images were selected for the exhibition including those detained as digital content, which is yet another key topic that can under discussion.

WANG XIAOHUI, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF CHINA.ORG.CN "It provided a platform for the BRICS members especially the media circles to have an opportunity to discuss our further co-operation in the face of the new media."

This year's theme is BRICS Media co-operation-Fostering an inclusive, Just world order, most media professionals working within this space believe the time has come for a different narrative shaping the world.

DMITRY GORNOSTAEV DEPUTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, RIA NOVOSTI "It is very important not only from a media point of view, not only from a technological point of view, from the point of view of bringing countries together who have an alternative agenda, in comparison to what the western media says to the world, so we can shape our own agenda to tell people about the stories we think is important."

Of course, the exhibition also paid tribute to the centenary of the late South African icon Nelson Mandela, with a powerful contribution paying homage to one of Africa's greatest icons.

TRAVERS ANDREWS CAPE TOWN "A new voice is emerging and a very important one at that, the media sector within the member nations have been handed an important mandate, one which not only strengthens the BRICS narrative but creates an environment which is inclusive of the plurality of voices, opinions and the diversity of viewpoints. Travers Andrews, CGTN, Cape Town."