Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Hemant Shirodkar wins two wards in the press club photo contest

Mumbai,May16
Twelve photo-Journalists were honoured this evening at the Press club , Mumbai by Sony Entertainment Television (SET) chief operating officer, Albert Almeida. However , only half of them were present in peson to receive the awards.
A week-long exhibition of their award-winning photos was also unveiled at the Club , which in association with the SET has been organising for the last five years a contest among the city-based photographers to showcase the best photographs that have captured Mumbai and itsnever-say-die spirit through an annual calendar.
Press photographer Hemant Shirodkar of Times of India baggedtwo prizes for his entries in the contest this year.
A total of 35 news photographers who are members of the Club,participated in the contest sending in over 450 images. Out of these12 images were adjudged as winners.
The photojournalist who have clicked these 12 images areA. Srinivas (The Indian Express), Ashish Rane (Mid-Day), DeepakSalvi (Mumbai Mirror), Dilip Kagda (The Indian Express), FawzanHusain (Freelancer), Ganesh Shirsekar (The Indian Express), GoutamSen (Sahara), Hemant Shirodkar (Times of India,2 images), SachinHaralkar (Mumbai Mirror), Vijayanand Gupta and Vikas Khot (HindustanTimes).

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