NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
COMPETITION

The National Photography Competition features the most powerful, provocative, and poignant images from around the country to create awareness about the challenges and solutions associated with Urban Climate Change and Sustainability. The photographs that qualified for the final round narrated how Indian cities are mainstreaming climate actions.

Themes

Climate Impacts
Climate Actions

PRIZES

1st Prize

₹25,000/-
(1 photograph for each theme)

Runners-up

₹15,000/-
(2 photographs for each theme)

Special Mention

₹5,000/-
(5 photographs for each theme)

WINNERS

CLIMATE
IMPACTS

First Prize

A mother and baby in a flooded room due to high tides in Kolkata city

Photographer: Joydeep Mukherjee

Place: Kolkata

RUNNERS UP

Fighting with water pollution for survival, fisherman fishing at Kalindi Kunj

Photographer: Bhanu

Place: New Delhi

Sea levels are rising, glaciers are melting & precipitation patterns are changing.

Photographer: Mr. Sourav Karmakar

Place: Bhagalpur in Bihar

SPECIAL MENTION

Waterlogged street due to heavy rain as Mumbai Monorail is seen going from above near Wadala Monorail station in Mumbai

Photographer: Pratik Chorge

Place: Mumbai

The unusual rain that battered Chennai in November 2021 led to lack of visibility and unpredictable manholes meant the road was the common path for pedestrians and vehicles.

Photographer: Suresh Kumar Chinnasamy

Place: Chennai

OUR RIDE

Photographer: Dimpal Pancholi

Place: Singroat, Gujarat

This picture taken in the time of ACID rain Street children enjoying rain do not it’s how effective it is. It's a Climate Impacts in Cities.

Photographer: SUPRIYA BISWAS

Place: Kolkata

In the summer of 2016, the hill forests of Uttarakhand witnessed one of the most devastating forest fires, caused allegedly due to anthropogenic factors impacting the climate and environment

Photographer: ANIRBAN ROY CHOWDHURY

Place: Rishikesh

WINNERS

An organisation ‘Karo Sambhav’, has been recycling the waste in a systematic way.

Photographer: Ekansh Goel

Place: Modinagar, Uttar pradesh

CLIMATE
ACTIONS

First Prize

RUNNERS UP

Solar Power in India is a fast developing industry.

Photographer: Mr. Sourav Karmakar

Place: Mohali in Punjab

Digging Deep into the core, farmer requesting Mother Earth for heavenly vessels

Photographer: Devendra Malviya

Place: Dhar

SPECIAL MENTION

As a smart city, Kolkata is now growing with large numbers of rooftops fitted with solar panel to give alternative supply of electric requirements.

Photographer: SUDIPTO DAS

Place: Kolkata

Solar bowl' on the roof of Auroville solar kitchen.

Photographer: Pattabi Raman

Place: Auroville

Heavy monsoon deluge cause havoc on our lands causing landslides/landslips every year

Photographer: Lalnuntluanga

Place: Aizwal

Friday for future- youth rally to create the awareness on the environment on world environment day

Photographer: Somya Parikh

Place: Pune

Little kids and families collecting free plants distributed by GHMC at famous locations like Charminar and Tank Bund

Photographer: Shrikanth Poojari

Place: Hyderabad

Jury

Mr. Balan Madhavan

Balan Madhavan is one of the 5 Senior Fellows of the International League of Conservation Photographers (www.ilcp.com) from the whole of Asia. iLCP is the world’s top body of Conservation Photographers with around 100 reputed photographers using the power of the image to save our world. He is one of the most sought-after Architectural and Travel photographers in India. Balan is an Associate of the “Royal Photographic Society (ARPS)” of the United Kingdom and an “Artiste of the Federation Internationale de l'Art Photographique (AFIAP)” of France. He is also a UN award winner in nature photography.

Mr. Parthiv Shah

Parthiv is a photographer, filmmaker, and graphic designer. He has made several documentary films, curated exhibitions, and has several photo books to his credit. He is the founder and director of the Centre for Media and Alternative Communication (CMAC). He has been awarded a senior fellowship in Photography by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Charles Wallace Fellowship, UK, and Fulbright Lectureship award to teach photography at the UCLA, USA.

Mr. Parveen P Mohandas

Praveen is an accomplished nature photographer, who has traveled and photographed across the spans of India, photographing its rich flora and fauna. He has spent considerable time in the wild and has bagged his accolades, Kerala Lalitha Kala Academy award for photography in 2007, received special mention in RBS-sanctuary wildlife photography awards four times consecutively from 2007. He has been a finalist in BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards in 2009 and ’10. His images have appeared in numerous national dailies and magazines of repute. He holds position of Director of projects at Photomuse, Museum of Photography, Kerala, India.

Mr. Rishi Singhal Rishi

Singhal is the Lead of Photography Design discipline under the department of Communication Design at the National Institute of Design. He received his education at the Centre for Environmental Planning & Technology, Ahmedabad (1998), Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY (2002), and the College of Visual & Performing Arts at Syracuse University, NY (2005). Rishi has been practicing photography for 25 years and has served on the jury of several photography competitions.

NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION