Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Canon
Monday, February 06, 2012 05:15 PM IST (11:45 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Business services, Information technology, Media & entertainment, Publishing & printing; Technology
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Chennai gives India its Photographer of the Year 2011
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Monday, February 06, 2012 -- (Business Wire India) -- After a record breaking 66,782 entries from remote towns, cities all over India, a Photojournalist based in the city of Chennai won accolades as the Photographer of the Year 2011.
Better Photography, one of India's leading photography magazines's much awaited contest, currently in its seventh year declared Mr. S L Shanthkumar as the rightful winner by the final judge, the legendary photojournalist and Magnum photographer Raghu Rai.
Working with a leading newspaper, Mr. S L Shanthkumar was extremely excited after the win. "I am extremely grateful to Better Photography. Being judged by the best in the industry that appreciates and recognizes your talent is an extremely humbling experience. It was hard work and dedication that persuaded me to concentrate on photography. Achieving a title as the 'photographer of the year' is completely priceless. I am thrilled and honoured."
As the grand prize, he has won a Canon EOS 7D, among other exciting prizes and earned the title, Canon-Better Photography Photographer of the Year 2011 on a national platform.
The competition was organized by Better Photography India's No.1 photography magazine in sponsorship with title partner Canon along with Associate Partner Canvera and Television Partner CNBC TV18 and the win was celebrated at the gala awards ceremony on 1st February 2012. The award night saw a large presence from both sides of the photography fraternity, the photographers as well as the manufacturers.
Mr. Seiji Hamanishi, Group Head, Image Communications Products Group, "Canon is delighted to support the Better Photography in this endeavor. Opportunities like these assist people to share their thoughts and ideas through photography and Canon salutes these outstanding minds."
The contest submissions closed on December 31, 2011 and the magazine received a whopping 66,782 entries. The entrants were allowed to participate in multiple themes with a maximum of four entries per theme. For the photo essay, participants could send up to two series of images-each containing a minimum of six and maximum of 12 images.
The chosen eight contestants were from different cities and were flown to Mumbai and each of the eight categories was selected by an esteemed panel of judges.
The winners of the eight categories are as follows:
The Joy of Colour- S L Shanthkumar, Still Life: Obvious Things- Nilesh Bhange, Portraiture: I, Me, Myself- Nirvair Singh, Reflections- Gokul Mudambile , Landscapes: Play of Light-Neelima Vallangi,Wildlife: Animal Behaviour- Baiju Patil ,Life on the Streets- Sudipto Das, Photo Essay: Song of the Road- Vinit Gupta.
The eight contestants had to fight it out in a decisive final face-off that took place from 29th- 31st January 2012 wherein they had the opportunity to shoot the city of Mumbai through their lenses.
According to Raghu Rai, "These awards are a great platform for young photographers. For them, it is important to realize that their photographs must exude freshness, instead of simply duplicating the kind of work they have seen before. The talent India has is spectacular. All we need to do is to channelize it in a better way, and focus our energies to make pictures that are shot straight from the heart."
Better Photography editor, K Madhavan Pillai said "The number of entries was unbelievable. It's the seventh year for the contest and we are going strong. During the category judging we realized that there is so much untapped talent in the country. We plan to conduct many more opportunities through photography to explore the talent and capabilities of the people of India."
The curtain raiser of Photographer of the Year 2012 would be telecasted on CNBC TV18 and would be featured on 18th February 2012 at 3:30pm and the final awards show would be telecasted on 19th February 2012 at 5:30pm. The contest was promoted on a large scale through television promotions on CNBC TV18, CNN IBN, Awaaz, CNN IBN, IBN Lokmat, magazine advertisements in Better Photography, Overdrive, T3, Chip, AV Max, Better Interiors, Entrepreneur, Burrp, Noise Factory along with banner ads across web18 sites including In.com, Moneycontrol.com, Ibnlive, Ibn khabar, Cricketnext.com and e-mailers to the vast Network 18 database.
ABOUT BETTER PHOTOGRAPHY - India's No.1 Photography Magazine
Better Photography has been one of the leading photography magazines in India and South Asia for over fourteen years now. It is published by Infomedia18 Ltd, one of India's best publishing houses. The magazine's primary audience includes serious enthusiasts and amateurs and covers a wide variety of content. Basic and advanced level techniques, reviews of latest cameras and photography gadgets along with interviews with the most reputed photographers from around the world forms the core of the content of Better Photography.
ABOUT INFOMEDIA18 LIMITED
Informedia18 [BSE: 509069; NSE: INFOMEDIA], the printing and publishing arm of Network18 is one of the leading publishers of business publications in the country. Its stable includes a number of leading B2C publications like Overdrive, Chip, Better Photography, Entrepreneur, Better Interiors, T3, AV Max, Noise Factory. Apart from these, it also publishes a large number of business to business publications and Yellow Pages. The latest in its kitty is the newly launched Better Photography Hindi as well as Overdrive Hindi, while through a pioneering initiative Overdrive is also available as an ipad app. After Market targeted at the automotive aftermarket industry is another new launch under its business to business publications.
Canon in India
Canon India closed the year of 2011 with revenues of Rs 1525 crore which is 21 % growth over 2010. Revenues in 2010 were Rs. 1260 Crores, a 50% growth over 2009. Canon focuses on multiple market segments of consumer, B2B, Government & Commercial. Canon's product portfolio extends over a vast variety of copier MFDs, fax-machines, printers, scanners, All-in-ones, digital cameras, camcorders and multimedia projectors, cable ID printers, semiconductors and card printers.
Canon India Pvt. Ltd. is a 100% subsidiary of Canon Singapore Pte. Ltd.; a world leader in imaging technologies. Set up in 1997, Canon India markets over 140 comprehensive range of sophisticated contemporary digital imaging. The company today has offices in 7 cities, warehouses in 13 cities across India and employs over 930 people. Canon has approximately 380 primary channel partners 13 National Retail Chain partners, and over 4000 secondary retail points. Oce distributors in India will now be a part of Canon partner network. Canon's service reach extends to over 200 towns with over 300 service Engineers, 6 Master services centers and 8 Authorized Service Franchise, 34 Canon Care Centers and 150 Authorized service centers. Canon and Océ products are available with complete service support network. More information is available on the www.canon.com website.
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Mr. Seiji Hamanishi, Assistant Director, ICP, Canon India awards one of the winners
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