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20-year-old Pubarun Basu bagged Sony World Photography Awards 2021 for his picture titled- No Escape from Reality .
As a toddler, Kolkata boy Pubarun Basu played with his father s camera, and gradually the interest in photography grew up through nature, wildlife, amateur photography. As a photographer, Pubarun loved to click natural shots, but the picture which won him the international fame, was created and not a natural click.
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The picture- No Escape from Reality bagged Sony World Photography Awards 2021
The 20-year-old won Sony World Photography Awards on April 15 for his picture, titled No Escape from Reality . The picture is a story of confinement told through his lens during lockdown. When I was in home during lockdown, the images of shadow and various reflections of sunlight created through the curtains in our windows attracted me. One day in July
Kolkata boy Pubarun Basu became the first Indian to win the Youth Competition of Sony World Photography Awards 2021 and bagged the title of the 'Youth Photographer of the Year 2021' by the World Photography Organization. He got talking to us about his journey and shared a few tips for fellow photographers.
At the age of four, he took his father’s DSLR to take a few snaps in Santiniketan. That’s how it all began for the 19-year-old Pubarun Basu, who recently became the Youth Photographer of the Year at Sony World Photography Awards.
The competition, organised by the World Photography Organisation, was meant for the age group of 12 to 19 years.
A South Point High School alumnus, Pubarun won the award for his image No Escape from Reality, clicked inside his bedroom during the lockdown.
In the photo, the shadows of railings projected onto curtains create an illusion of cage bars from behind which a pair of hands are seen as if trying to break through. The illusion of shadows and the gesture of hands convey a sense of entrapment shared by so many in the past year.
Meet Pubarun Basu who won the Youth Photographer of the Year 2021 at the Sony World Photography Awards
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The 20-year-old photographer from Kolkata won the award for his photograph, No Escape from Reality
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The 20-year-old photographer from Kolkata won the award for his photograph, No Escape from Reality
In the past two years, not a day has passed in Pubarun Basu’s life without him working on his photography skills. “I would either click or process pictures. It not only kept me engaged during the pandemic but also kept me sane.” The 20-year-old photographer from Kolkata recently won the Youth Photographer of the Year 2021 at the Sony World Photography Awards. “There were 3,30,000 entries from around 220 countries. I am the first Indian to win this title. I am humbled by the recognition,” he says.
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Craig Easton’s winning Bank Top series, which challenges the representation and misrepresentation of communities in northern England
Craig Easton has also been awarded in the Portraiture category for his series Bank Top – which he created in partnership with writer Abdul Aziz Hafiz. The black and white images concentrate on the Bank Top neighbourhood in Blackburn, as a way of exploring the representation of communities in the north of England. The imagery was born from an initiative by Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, set up to challenge reports of the town as the most segregated in the UK. Easton and Hafiz spent a year on the project, working closely with locals to create texts to accompany the portraits.