Photographer of the Year' at the prestigious Sony World Photography
Awards 2011.
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.
His winning series of photographs, entitled People Watching Cinema at
the Nomadic Talkies, was shot in the remote of Maharashtra. It
documents people attending nighttime film screenings held by a
travelling cinema.
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.
The Sony World Photography Awards is the world's largest and most
comprehensive photography competition.
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.
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