Winners of 22nd National Photo Content announced

Devendra and Narayan D Patel have been announced winners of the 22nd National Photo Contest organized by Photo Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting on the theme “Badhte Kadam: A vision of hope”. Both the winners were given a cash award of Rs.25,000 each along with a citation and plaque.

Devendra from Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh and Narayan D Patel from Vadodara, Gujarat have bagged the first prize for their pictures Empowering village and No title in Black and white & Colour section respectively.

The Second prize for the contest went to Santosh Kumar Jana of Midnapore, West Bengal and Pravesh Chaursia of Indore for their picture Badhte Kadam and Education for all in Black and white & Colour section respectively. Each was given a cash reward of Rs.20,000 and citation and plaque. Dibyendu Dey Choudhury and Shyamal Das of Kolkata were given Rs.15,000 as the third prize for their picture Hopes and Dreams and towards Market in the Black and White and Colour section respectively..

Apart from that the commendation awards of Rs.5,000 each along with citation and plaque were conferred to a number of artists Avijit Datta, Buddhadeb Saha, Subhashis Basu, Supriya Biswas, Chetan Soni Kuntal Kumar Roy, Jayanta Roy, Nimai Chandra Ghosh, Saurabh Mittal, Kailash Mittal, Sandipan Majumdar, Somenath Mukhopadhyay, Abhijit Dey, O.P. Soni, Kaushik Padaria, Kaushik Majumdar, Anindya Majumdar, Anil Kumar Vastal, D.N. Baraskar and Jayanta Shaw.

A total number of 1575 photographs were received from 391 participants from 24 States and UT’s. A high level Jury comprising noted photographer G.B.Mukherji from Delhi, eminent photographer Jyoti Bhatt from Gujarat, Professor S. Pradeep Kumar, Head of the Department of Photography & Visual Communication, JNTU College of Fine Arts, Andhra Pradesh, T. Narayan, National Photo Editor of the Hindustan Times Group and Debatosh Sengupta, Director, Photo Division screened all the entries and selected the three prize winning entries as well as the ten commendation prizes in each section keeping in view of the quality, spontaneity as well as the theme of the Photo Contest.