His photo entry was chosen as the winning photograph, from among 12,000 entries, by the assessment panel, which was drawn from an illustrious panel of photographers from across India.
The award was established to recognise and reward the very best of photographic talent in India and to promote interests in photography.
The Photographer of the Year 2007 award is a national photo competition that attracted entries from some of the best images taken by amateur photographers from across India. Industry’s top photographers and critics support this award which was instituted in 2005. The participation of amateur photographers has increased steadily each year.
“This is a contest for the serious enthusiasts,” Madhavan Pillai, editor, Better Photography told Metrolife on the sidelines of the award ceremony. “This award is aimed at providing an unparallel national platform to the culturally important and diverse world of photography and paying tribute to photographers across India in all categories,” he added.
Designed to inspire and excite anyone who is passionate about photography, the competition featured six different categories and a prestigious panel of experts who judged the entries. After a tough competition, six photographers emerged as the winners in six different categories.
These six finalists further competed for the ultimate title of The photographer of the Year 2007 Award. Umeed Mistry emerged as the winner from among these six finalists.
The winners in the six categories are: Partha Sen (Still Life), Supriya Biswas (Portraiture), Debashis Tarafdar (Happiness), Jaydeep Mukherjee (Man and His Environment), Umeed Mistry (Pristine Landscape), Mallikarjun Vallal (Wildlife).
“All the six winners in their categories stayed with us for three days to take panoramic pictures of Bangalore called, ‘Bangalore vistas’ to enable us to choose the photographer of the year,” informed Madhavan.
“Our mission is to encourage high standards in photography and to promote a visual expression of ideas. Better photography aims to support photography on a nation-wide scale,” added Pillai.
