Eddie Adams (photographer)

Eddie Adams (June 12, 1933 – September 19, 2004) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and his coverage of 13 wars.
It was while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press that he took his best-known photograph – the picture of police chief General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner, Nguyễn Văn Lém, on a Saigon street, on February 1, 1968, during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive. Adams won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and a World Press Photo award for the photograph (captioned 'General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong
prisoner in Saigon'), but would later lament its notoriety. Writer and critic David D. Pearlmutter points out that 'no film footage did as much damage as AP photographer Eddie Adams's 35mm shot taken on a Saigon street ... When people talk or write about [the Tet Offensive] at least a sentence is devoted (often with an illustration) to the Eddie Adams picture'.Anticipating the impact of Adams's photograph, an attempt at balance was sought by editors in the New York Times. In his memoirs, John G. Morris recalls that; (Theodore M. Bernstein), "determined that the brutality manifested by America's ally be put into perspective, agreed to run the Adams picture large, but offset with a picture of a child slain by Vietcong, which conveniently came through from AP at about the same time". Nonetheless, it is Adams's photograph that is remembered while the other far less dramatic image was overlooked and soon forgotten.In Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag is disturbed by what she sees as the staged nature of the photograph. She writes that 'he would not have carried out the summary execution there had [the press] not been available to witness it'.On Nguyen Ngoc Loan and his famous photograph, Adams wrote in Time:“ The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them; but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. ... What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American people?' ” Adams later apologized in person to General Nguyen and his family for the irreparable damage it did to the General's honor while he was alive. When Nguyen died, Adams praised him as a "hero" of a "just cause".On the television show "War Stories with Oliver North" Adams called Gen. Nguyen "a goddamned hero!"[citation needed] He once said, "I would have rather been known more for the series of photographs I shot of 48 Vietnamese refugees who managed to sail to Thailand in a 30-foot boat, only to be towed back to the open seas by Thai marines." The photographs, and accompanying reports, helped persuade then President Jimmy Carter to grant the nearly 200,000 Vietnamese boat people asylum. He won the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club in 1977 for this series of photographs in his photo essay,"The Boat of No Smiles" (Published by AP) . Adams remarked, "It did some good and nobody got hurt."Along with the Pulitzer, Adams received over 500 awards, including the George Polk Award for News Photography in 1968, 1977 and 1978, and numerous awards from World Press Photo, NPPA, Sigma Delta Chi, Overseas Press Club, and many other organizations.

Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes Viet Cong Captain Nguyen Van Lem: February 1, 1968. This Associated Press photograph, "General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon," won a 1969 Pulitzer prize for its photographer Eddie Adams. Film also exists of this event, but owing to the more graphic nature of the film, the photograph is more widely known.

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Bryan Adams

Bryan Guy Adams, OC, OBC (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations. He has also had 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television in 1992. He has also won MTV, ASCAP, and American Music awards. In addition, he has won two Ivor Novello Awards for song composition and has been nominated for several Golden Globe Awards and three times for Academy Awards for his songwriting for films. Bryan Adams has sold nearly70 million albums and 30 million singles worldwide.Adams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for contributions to popular music and philanthropic work via his own foundation, which helps improve education for people around the world. He is a well known photographer.Adams was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998, and in April 2006 he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at Canada's Juno Awards. In 2008, Bryan was ranked 38 on the list of All-Time top artists by the Billboard Hot 100 50th Anniversary Charts. On 13 January 2010, he received the Allan Waters. Humanitarian Award for his part in numerous charitable concerts and campaigns during his career, and on 1 May 2010 was given the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for his 30 years of contributions to the arts.As a photographer, Adams has worked with many of his musical peers, including Mick Jagger, Ray Charles, Tina Turner, Rod Stewart, Robert Plant, Take That, Joss Stone, Plácido Domingo, Sarah McLachlan, Celine Dion, Billy Idol, Moby, Amy Winehouse, t.A.T.u., Annie Lennox, Peter Gabriel, Bryan Ferry, Lenny Kravitz, Die Antwoord, and Morrissey to name a few. On 27 November 2000 Bryan played onstage with The Who at the Royal Albert Hall. A DVD of the concert was issued. Bryan photographed the band and his photos appear in the DVD booklet.

                                      Photographic exhibitions include:
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 1999
McCord Museum, Montreal 2000
Saatchi Gallery, London 2000
Photokina, Köln (Cologne), Germany 2001
ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 2004
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 2004
Calvin Klein, NYC, Dallas, Paris 2005
Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London 2005/2006
Il Tempio Di Adriano, Rome, Italy, July 2006
Photokina, Köln (Cologne), Germany, September 2006
Leica Gallery, Vienna, Austria, November 2006
Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 2006
H.Stern exhibition, São Paulo, Brazil, March 2007
PhotoEspana, Madrid, Spain, Fotografos Insospechados (Unsuspected Photographers) Mickey Rourke photographs, May to July 2007
Nunnington Hall, North Yorkshire, England, May to June 2007
401 Projects, NYC, NY September to November 2007
The Hospital, Covent Garden, London, England. November 2007 (Modern Muses)
The National Portrait Gallery, London, England. Feb – May 2008 (Modern Muses)
Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany. May 2008 (Photos of the German National Football Team)
14th Street Gallery, NYC, NY. May 2008. (Hear The World) (plus other exhibitions in Berlin and Zurich with the same show)
Saatchi Gallery, London July 2009 (Hear The World)
Calvin Klein American Women 2010, NYC, NY Sept 2010

East-facing façade of the Royal Ontario Museum, built in 1933.

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Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park.
One of his most famous photographs was Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California.With Fred Archer, Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs and the work of those to whom he taught the system. Adams primarily used large-format cameras despite their size, weight, setup time, and film cost, because their high resolution helped ensure sharpness in his images.Adams founded the Group f/64 along with fellow photographers Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham, which
in turn created the Museum of Modern Art's department of photography. Adams's photographs are reproduced on calendars, posters, and in books, making his photographs widely distributed.

Ansel Adams received a number of awards during his lifetime and posthumously, and there have been a few awards named for him.
Adams received a Doctor of Arts from both Harvard and Yale universities. He was awarded the Conservation Service
Award by the Department of Interior in 1968, a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980, the Sierra Club John Muir Award in 1963, and was inducted into the California Hall of Fame by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver in 2007
The Minarets Wilderness in the Inyo National Forest and a 11,760-foot (3,580 m)
 peak therein were renamed the Ansel Adams Wilderness and Mount Ansel Adams respectively in 1985.
The Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography was established in
1971, and the Ansel Adams Award for Conservation was established in 1980 by The Wilderness Society.

                                      Notable photographs
The information for each photograph is taken from Adams's 1983 book Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs.
Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, 1927.
Rose and Driftwood, San Francisco, California, 1932.
Georgia O'Keeffe and Orville Cox, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, 1937.
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, 1940.[80]
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941.
Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California, 1944.
Aspens, Northern New Mexico, 1958.
El Capitan, Winter, Sunrise, 1968

Church, Taos Pueblo (1942)

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George W. Ackerman

George W. Ackerman (1884 – 1962) was an American government photographer.
During a nearly 40-year career with the United States Department of Agriculture,
it is estimated that he took over 50,000 photographs.
Ackerman began working as a photographer for the Bureau of Plant Industry in 1910 at a salary of $900 a year. In 1917 he moved to the Federal Extension Service, and in that position, he traveled around the country photographing rural life.

Retrieved 2008-06-29. "During a nearly 40-year career with the Department of Agriculture, George W. Ackerman (1884-1962) estimated that he took over 50,000 photographs. Ackerman began working as a photographer for the Bureau of Plant Industry in 1910 at a salary
of $900 a year. In 1917 he moved to the Federal Extension Service, and in that position, he traveled around the country photographing rural life. His photographs appeared in many private and Government agricultural publications, although they were not usually credited to him."

A Farmer Reading His Paper. Photographed by George W. Ackerman, Coryell County, Texas, September 1931.

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Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991), born Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s.

                                                Photography and poetry

Abbott went to Europe in 1921, spending two years studying sculpture in Paris and Berlin. During this time, she adopted the French spelling of her first name, "Berenice," at the suggestion of Djuna Barnes.In addition to her work in the visual arts, Abbott published poetry in the experimental literary journal transition. Abbott first became involved with photography in 1923, when Man Ray, looking for somebody who knew nothing about photography and thus would do as he said, hired her as a darkroom assistant at his portrait studio in Montparnasse. Later she would write: "I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else." Ray was impressed by her darkroom work and allowed her to use his studio to take her own photographs. In 1926, she had her first solo exhibition (in the gallery "Au Sacre du Printemps")
 and started her own studio on the rue du Bac. After a short time studying photography in Berlin, she returned to Paris in 1927 and started a second studio, on the rue Servandoni.
Abbott's subjects were people in the artistic and literary worlds, including French nationals
(Jean Cocteau), expatriates (James Joyce), and others just passing through the city. According to Sylvia Beach, "To be 'done' by Man Ray or Berenice Abbott meant you rated as somebody". Abbott's work was exhibited with that of Man Ray, André Kertész, and others in Paris,
in the "Salon de l'Escalier" (more formally, the Premier Salon Indépendant de la Photographie),
and on the staircase of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Her portraiture was unusual
within exhibitions of modernist photography held in 1928–9 in Brussels and Germany.
In 1925, Man Ray introduced her to Eugène Atget's photographs. She became a great admirer
of Atget's work, and managed to persuade him to sit for a portrait in 1927. He died shortly
thereafter. While the government acquired much of Atget's archive — Atget had sold 2,621
negatives in 1920, and his friend and executor André Calmettes sold 2,000 more immediately
after his death — Abbott was able to buy the remainder in June 1928, and quickly started
work on its promotion. An early tangible result was the 1930 book Atget, photographe de Paris,
in which she is described as photo editor. Abbott's work on Atget's behalf would continue until
her sale of the archive to the Museum of Modern Art in 1968. In addition to her book The World of Atget (1964), she provided the photographs for A Vision of Paris (1963), published a portfolio, Twenty Photographs, and wrote essays.
 Her sustained efforts helped Atget gain international recognition.

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Slim Aarons

                                                      Slim Aarons, on the right side.

Slim Aarons, born George Allen Aarons (October 29, 1916, Manhattan - May 29, 2006,
Montrose, New York), was an American photographer noted for photographing socialites, jet-setters and celebrities.

                                          Photography career
At 18 years old, Aarons enlisted in the U.S. Army, working as a
photographer at West Point and later serving as a combat photographer in World War II and
earning a Purple Heart. Aarons said that combat had taught him that the only beach worth
landing on was "decorated with beautiful, seminude girls tanning in a tranquil sun."
After the war, Aarons moved to California and began photographing celebrities. In California,
he shot his most praised photo, Kings of Hollywood, a 1957 New's Year's Eve photograph depicting
Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and James Stewart relaxing at a bar in full formal wear.
Aaron's work appeared in Life, Town & Country and Holiday magazines.
Aarons never used a stylist, or a makeup artist.
Aarons made his career out of what he called "photographing attractive people doing attractive
things in attractive places." "I knew everyone," he said in an interview with The (London)
Independent in 2002. "They would invite me to one of their parties because they knew I wouldn't
hurt them. I was one of them." Alfred Hitchcock's film, Rear Window, whose main character is a
photographer played by Jimmy Stewart, is set in an apartment reputed to be based on Aarons's apartment. He died in 2006, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Photo books
A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life (1974)
Slim Aarons: Once Upon a Time (2003)
Slim Aarons: A Place In the Sun (2005)
Poolside with Slim Aarons (2007)

Slim Aarons, A group of young women enjoy the sunshine
in the grounds of the former Goerge Newhall estate in
San Francisco. Its house and gardens are modeled on Le Petit Trianon at Versailles. (c. 1960) 

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Rolf Aamot

Rolf Aamot (born in Bergen September 28, 1934) is a Norwegian painter, film director, photographer and tonal-image composer.
Since the 1950s Aamot has been a pioneer within the field of electronic painting, exploring the emerging technology as it combines with the traditional arts of painting,
music, film, theatre, and ballet. Aamot studied painting at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry
and Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts), and film at Dramatiska Instutet in Stockholm. Aamot is known for his work as a painter, electronic painter,
art photographer, graphic artist, film director, tonal-image composer and cultural author. Much of his work consists of creating electronic tonal images
and thus his work contains elements of photography but is hard to pigeon hole. It is frequently a form of performance art with abstract photographic elements.
Since 1966, Aamot's works have been displayed in Scandinavia, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, the Soviet Union and subsequently Russia, Poland, USA and Japan.
His work can be found in several important public collections. Aamot has been represented at several international film and art festivals throughout the world.

The Fall, digital photopainting, 180cm x 120cm, Rolf Aamot, 2002/2003.
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Gregory Colbert

Born in Toronto, Canada in 1960, Gregory Colbert is a photographer best known as the creator of Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of photographic artworks and films housed in the Nomadic Museum.

                                         Ashes and Snow

Gregory Colbert's first exhibition, Timewaves, opened in 1992 at the Museum of Elysée in Switzerland to wide critical acclaim. For the next ten years, Colbert did not publicly exhibit his art or show any films. Instead, he traveled to such places as India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Dominica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tonga, Namibia, and Antarctica to film and photograph interactions between human beings and animals. Since 1992, he has launched more than sixty such expeditions, and has collaborated with over 130 species. Elephants, whales, manatees, sacred ibis, Antigone cranes, royal eagles, Gyr falcons, rhinoceros hornbills, cheetahs, leopards, African wild dogs, caracals, baboons, eland, meerkats, gibbon, orangutans, and saltwater crocodiles are among the animals he has filmed and photographed. Human subjects include Burmese monks, trance dancers, San people, and other indigenous tribes from around the world.

In 2002, Colbert presented his work, Ashes and Snow, in Venice, Italy. An April 9, 2002 review in The Globe and Mail stated, “Colbert unveiled Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of images and photographs unprecedented in both scope and scale. Covering 12,600 square meters, it is billed as one of the largest one-man shows in the history of Europe.”

In spring 2005, the show opened in New York City in the Nomadic Museum, a temporary structure built to house the exhibition. Ashes and Snow and the Nomadic Museum then traveled to Santa Monica in 2006, Tokyo in 2007, and Mexico City in 2008. To date, Ashes and Snow has attracted over 10 million visitors, making it the most attended exhibition by a living artist in history.

Ashes and Snow has been a critical and popular success. Photo magazine declared, “A new master is born.” Ashes and Snow has been described as "extraordinary" by the Economist, and "distinctive . . . monumental in every sense" by the Wall Street Journal. Stern magazine declared that the photographs are "fascinating," and Vanity Fair described Gregory Colbert as "Best of the Best." An article in 2002 in the New York Times by Alan Riding stated “The power of the images comes less from their formal beauty than from the way they envelop the viewer in their mood. . . .They are simply windows to a world in which silence and patience govern time.”

Colbert began his career in Paris in 1983 making documentary films on social issues. His documentary, On the Brink-An AIDS chronicle, was filmed in nine countries, and was nominated for an ACE award in 1985 in the category of best documentary. Other film projects include Last Words and Finding a Way Home. Film-making led to fine arts photography.

Gregory Colbert has been the recipient of a number of awards and distinctions. In 2006 he was awarded the "Best Curator of the Year" at the Lucie Awards. In 2007, his film, Ashes and Snow was nominated for a special prize at the Venice Film festival. Most recently, he was named the honorary ambassador of culture and tourism to Mexico.

The Nomadic Museum, the traveling home of Ashes and Snow, is charted to travel the  with no final destination.

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"How dare you.."-- Thought that went throught cow's mind.

The snap taken while we went a trip to wagamon. The cow was actually not posing, it was soo hungry. So it was expecting some food from us. What we have done is that instead of giving food we have taken a snap. This looks beautiful.
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In the darkness...............

The snap that I took in my new mobile- "LG Optimus one", which has no flash.
But this photo is one among the nice snaps that I have took.
The main reason is that without a flash in the camera it is a big challenge for me to take the snap at night. But I succeeded in the challenge..
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The main thing that we need to take a photo is a Camera. With the introduction of new technology, the face of photography has been changing rapidly. Whether you're looking for a film or digital camera or a compact or professional camera, knowing the options will help you make a good decision.

Types
There are two types of cameras, the point-and-shoot and the SLR. Both types come in film or digital varieties.

Function
Most people opt for point-and-shoot cameras, which are small and compact. They have automatic functions that make them ideal for taking on trips. SLR stands for "single lens reflex." This refers to how the camera lets light enter it. SLRs are larger and more awkward to lug around, but they take much better pictures than point-and-shoot cameras.

Features
Point-and-shoot cameras are easy to carry and simple to use, though they can have some manual functions. But if you want excellent picture quality and professional-looking pictures, an SLR camera is a better choice. SLR cameras give you more control over the look of your image and more options, because you can change lenses.

What is Photography?

Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still pictures by recording radiation on a radiation-sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or electronic image sensors.
Photography uses foremost radiation in the UV, visible and near-IR spectrum. For common purposes the term light is used instead of radiation.
Light reflected or emitted from objects form a real image on a light sensitive area (film or plate) or a FPA pixel array sensor by means of a pin hole or lens in a device known as a camera during a timed exposure.
The result on film or plate is a latent image, subsequently developed into a visual image (negative or diapositive).
An image on paper base is known as a print. The result on the FPA pixel array sensor is an electrical charge at each pixel which is electronically processed and stored in a computer (raster)-image file for subsequent display or processing.
Photography has many uses for business, science, manufacturing (f.i. Photolithography), art, and recreational purposes.Photography is the result of combining several technical discoveries. Long before the first photographs were made, Chinese philosopher Mo Di and Greek mathematicians Aristotle and Euclid described a pinhole camera in the 5th and 4th centuries BC.

~~~~~~~~~~~~Processes~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. Monochrome photography

All photography was originally monochrome, or black-and-white. Even after color film was readily available, black-and-white photography continued to dominate for decades, due to its lower cost and its "classic" photographic look. It is important to note that some monochromatic pictures are not always pure blacks and whites, but also contain other hues depending on the process. The cyanotype process produces an image of blue and white for example. The albumen process, first used more than 150 years ago, produces brown tones.
Many photographers continue to produce some monochrome images, often because of the established archival permanence of well processed silver halide based materials.
Some full color digital images are processed using a variety of techniques to create black and whites, and some manufacturers produce digital cameras that exclusively shoot monochrome.

2. Color photography

Color photography was explored beginning in the mid-19th century. Early experiments in color could not fix the photograph and prevent the color from fading. The first permanent color photo was taken in 1861 by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
Early color photograph taken by Prokudin-Gorskii (1915).One of the early methods of taking color photos was to use three cameras. Each camera would have a color filter in front of the lens. This technique provides the photographer with the three basic channels required to recreate a color image in a darkroom or processing plant. Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii developed another technique, with three color plates taken in quick succession.
Practical application of the technique was held back by the very limited color response of early film; however, in the early 20th century, following the work of photo-chemists such as H. W. Vogel, emulsions with adequate sensitivity to green and red light at last became available

3. Full spectrum photography

Ultraviolet and infrared films have been available for many decades and employed in a variety of photographic avenues since the 1960s. New technological trends in digital photography have opened a new direction in full spectrum photography, where careful filtering choices across the ultraviolet, visible and infrared lead to new artistic visions.
Modified digital cameras can detect some ultraviolet, all of the visible and much of the near infrared spectrum, as most digital imaging sensors are sensitive from about 350 nm to 1000 nm. An off-the-shelf digital camera contains an infrared hot mirror filter that blocks most of the infrared and a bit of the ultraviolet that would otherwise be detected by the sensor, narrowing the accepted range from about 400 nm to 700 nm.[20] Replacing a hot mirror or infrared blocking filter with an infrared pass or a wide spectrally transmitting filter allows the camera to detect the wider spectrum light at greater sensitivity. Without the hot-mirror, the red, green and blue (or cyan, yellow and magenta) colored micro-filters placed over the sensor elements pass varying amounts of ultraviolet (blue window) and infrared (primarily red, and somewhat lesser the green and blue micro-filters).

4. Digital photography

Traditional photography burdened photographers working at remote locations without easy access to processing facilities, and competition from television pressured photographers to deliver images to newspapers with greater speed. Photo journalists at remote locations often carried miniature photo labs and a means of transmitting images through telephone lines. In 1981, Sony unveiled the first consumer camera to use a charge-coupled device for imaging, eliminating the need for film: the Sony Mavica. While the Mavica saved images to disk, the images were displayed on television, and the camera was not fully digital. In 1991, Kodak unveiled the DCS 100, the first commercially available digital single lens reflex camera. Although its high cost precluded uses other than photojournalism and professional photography, commercial digital photography was born.



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Snap that attracted me the most from the youth festival.

The photo explains the emotion of a candidate, who is waiting for the results in the Kerala State Youth Festival, which is considered as the biggest cultural fest in Asia. This photo was a file photo taken during the youth festival 2005. Now we don’t have any first place or second place, we have grades so there is no competition between the candidates.

Victor George- A great famous photographer who made his photos memorable.

Victor George (April 10, 1955–July 9, 2001) was a photographer from Kerala, India who died in 2001 while taking pictures of landslides in Kerala Geography of Kerala#Natural Hazards in Kerala. He was working in an Indian Publication (Malayala Manorama, NewsPaper) as Chief Photo Editor. His works include Portrait of "Rain". Victor set out from Kottayam, on July 9, 2001, to cover a landslide that had claimed three lives near Thodupuzha in Idukki district. That afternoon, the torrential rains unleashed a second landslide. Cameramen and reporters, who had gathered on the slopes of Venniyani Mala, ran for their lives. But Victor lingered, unmindful of the rocks hurtling down or the shouts of his colleagues, his camera focussed on the diabolic beauty. In a flash, he had disappeared — lost in the rushing water and avalanche of rocks that tore down the hillside.

For two days, they scoured Venniyani Mala, while people all over Kerala watched, hoped and prayed. The third day, a friend saw fingers raised above the mud, a hundred metres below the landslide. Army men and villagers gently retrieved the body, the broken strap of the camera coiled around the neck.

For Victor, there was drama in the ordinary and the everyday, not just in events making headlines. His acute eye could frame a riveting picture from an elderly pavement dweller's defeated face or an excited crowd at a village football tournament. He found as much lyricism in a group of crows perched on a bridge in the rain as the gazelle-like stride of P.T. Usha burning up the tracks.

ACHIEVMENTS

1983 - Received the Gulf Malayalee State Award for Best News Photography.

1985 - UNICEF Award and was selected as one of the Top 10 Photographs in a competition jointly held by UNICEF and Information and Broadcasting Ministry.

1985 - He also won the professional category prize in the sports photo Competition held by Sports Authority of India. 1989 - Bulgarian Award for photography.

1994 - Covered 12th Asiad, Heroshima along with Sports Editor, Sanil P. Thomas.

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