BarTur Photo Award. Deadline 1st July

Sub­mis­sions are wel­comed from any­one mak­ing pho­to­graph­ic work in this area. It is free to enter.

There are three prizes: First Prize: $750, Sec­ond Prize: $500, Third Prize: $250

Sub­mis­sions will be eval­u­at­ed by a selec­tion of jugdes from our world-lead­ing pan­el of experts drawn from all areas of the pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­phy indus­try.

Award Open­ing: 8th June 2020

Award Clos­ing: 1st July 2020, 11:59 GMT

Win­ners announced: Fri­day 10th July 2020.​

The Bar­Tur Pho­to Award is a non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion.

Image Cred­it: Som­e­nath Mukhopad­hyay

Suri, India

Con­fined in my own house with lit­tle or no flex­i­bil­i­ty of move­ment due to govt reg­u­la­tions and very lim­it­ed scope of pho­tog­ra­phy, I decid­ed to shoot this port­fo­lio of images. I am indebt­ed to these cute mod­els who are my near rela­tions and some local chil­dren. I have observed them close­ly dur­ing this ongo­ing lock-down peri­od and in my work I have tried to doc­u­ment their chang­ing lifestyle. Roof tops have now replaced their favourite play­grounds and win­dows are the newest hotspots in the quar­an­tine peri­od. Masked faces find fan­cy in the twirls and whirls of their flow­ing gowns. The bad boys are not bad enough because they are nose­dived into their online class­es stream­ing through the Net. 

A pletho­ra of diverse nar­ra­tives and feel­ings — I have tried to include in these images. This is going to be a full length work that will accom­mo­date many oth­er images in the future.