<p>Mumbai-based Madheshiya was one of 13 professional category winners presented with an award held at the ceremony at the Odeon in Leicester Square, London, last night.<br /><br />His winning series of photographs, entitled People Watching Cinema at the Nomadic Talkies, was shot in the remote villages of Maharashtra. It documents people attending nighttime film screenings held by a travelling cinema.<br /><br />The nomadic cinemas travel to the villages, which are located far from fixed-site theatres, once a year and show an eclectic mix of films.<br /><br />The Sony World Photography Awards is the world's largest and most comprehensive photography competition.<br /><br />Amit Madheshiya works as an independent photographer. For his work on the nomadic cinemas he received an Arts Research Grant from the India Foundation for the Arts, a fellowship from the Cluster of Excellence at Heidelberg University and the Goethe Institute 50 Year Anniversary Grant.<br /><br />In 2009, his vibrant and thoughtful images on the project won the Sony World Photography Award for Arts and Entertainment, as well as the Grand Award in the Humanity Photo Awards.<br /><br />In the same year Madheshiya was also declared Emerging Photographer of the Year in India.<br /><br />Argentinean photographer Alejandro Chaskielberg was named overall Photographer of the Year winning a USD 25,000 cash prize and Sony digital SLR equipment.<br /><br />His photographs offer a rare and insightful look into the lives of a community of islanders who live on the Parana River Delta in Argentina.<br /><br />All the winning images will be exhibited from 26 April to 22 May at Somerset House in London.<br /><br />The exhibition captures a unique view of the world in 2010/11 as recorded through the lens of winning photographers.<br /><br />Student photographer Louis Boulet from Ecole Nationale Superieure Louis Lumiere, France, won the Student Focus award.<br /><br />Louis was flown to London and received approximately 45,000 Euros worth of Sony digital imaging equipment for his school.<br /><br />Bruce Davidson received the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award.<br />Davidson, 77, has a career spanning more than half a century, and is one of America's most distinguished photographers.<br /><br />The winning images were selected from 53,223 Professional category submissions and 51,878 Open category photography submissions from 162 countries.<br /><br />Created by the World Photography Organisation, the World Photography Awards, sponsored by Sony, launched in 2007.</p>
<p>Mumbai-based Madheshiya was one of 13 professional category winners presented with an award held at the ceremony at the Odeon in Leicester Square, London, last night.<br /><br />His winning series of photographs, entitled People Watching Cinema at the Nomadic Talkies, was shot in the remote villages of Maharashtra. It documents people attending nighttime film screenings held by a travelling cinema.<br /><br />The nomadic cinemas travel to the villages, which are located far from fixed-site theatres, once a year and show an eclectic mix of films.<br /><br />The Sony World Photography Awards is the world's largest and most comprehensive photography competition.<br /><br />Amit Madheshiya works as an independent photographer. For his work on the nomadic cinemas he received an Arts Research Grant from the India Foundation for the Arts, a fellowship from the Cluster of Excellence at Heidelberg University and the Goethe Institute 50 Year Anniversary Grant.<br /><br />In 2009, his vibrant and thoughtful images on the project won the Sony World Photography Award for Arts and Entertainment, as well as the Grand Award in the Humanity Photo Awards.<br /><br />In the same year Madheshiya was also declared Emerging Photographer of the Year in India.<br /><br />Argentinean photographer Alejandro Chaskielberg was named overall Photographer of the Year winning a USD 25,000 cash prize and Sony digital SLR equipment.<br /><br />His photographs offer a rare and insightful look into the lives of a community of islanders who live on the Parana River Delta in Argentina.<br /><br />All the winning images will be exhibited from 26 April to 22 May at Somerset House in London.<br /><br />The exhibition captures a unique view of the world in 2010/11 as recorded through the lens of winning photographers.<br /><br />Student photographer Louis Boulet from Ecole Nationale Superieure Louis Lumiere, France, won the Student Focus award.<br /><br />Louis was flown to London and received approximately 45,000 Euros worth of Sony digital imaging equipment for his school.<br /><br />Bruce Davidson received the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award.<br />Davidson, 77, has a career spanning more than half a century, and is one of America's most distinguished photographers.<br /><br />The winning images were selected from 53,223 Professional category submissions and 51,878 Open category photography submissions from 162 countries.<br /><br />Created by the World Photography Organisation, the World Photography Awards, sponsored by Sony, launched in 2007.</p>