In a first of its kind initiative, Hyderabad will be hosting the maiden International Photographer of the Year Award. The International Photography competition is an initiative of Indian Photo Festival (IPF) aims to present awards in 8 categories such as Current Affairs & News, Documentary, Portrait, Landscape, Street, Wildlife, Wedding and Mobile.
IPF is hosting it in support with HMDA and CREDAI. Participants can win $ 25000 worth and cash and camera gear. It is open to photographers from all over the world. Photographers can send their entries from March 21 to June 21. Over 5000 entries are expected to be received from all over the world.
Indian Photo Festival has already put in Hyderabad city on the global pedestal. With introduction of INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR AWARDS and choosing Hyderabad to be the first host city, it will firmly establish Hyderabad as a brand not just as a destination for the awards function among photography fraternity from all over the world but also to explore its tourist potential. Several editions of Indian Photo Festival already held in the past attracted who-is-who in the photography world. And now with this awards program, Hyderabad has become a name to reckon in the photography world.
Some of the legendary photographers who already graced IPF and Hyderabad are World’s top Photo Journalists, Nick Ut, Pulitzer Prize Winner and the Naplam Girl image fame, Carol Guzy a four time Pulitzer Award Winner, the world’s iconic photographers like Richard Drew, a 73years Associated Press photo-journalist, known all over the world for capturing the Falling Man from the World Trade Center; British photographer Tim Flach, an animal photographer known for taking human-like portraits of animals; Rachael Strecher, Director of Media Innovation at the National Geographic Society who leads grant making to support photographers, writers, filmmakers, data visualization experts, cartographers and other storytellers and many others like them.
Indian Photo Festival (IPF) is a Hyderabad based, a not-for-profit initiative of Light Craft Foundation, which is the India’s longest running international photography festival showcasing a wide range of photography from India and around the globe with a series of events with an objective to promote the art of photography and at the same time addresses social issues through the medium of photography.
