Photo Competition
Photo Competition Winner - November '12 by Martin Sargent
- Judged by
- Paul Goldstein
- Trip code
- AIN
- Countries Visited
- India
- Winner
- November 2012
Think you have seen every Varanasi shot worth taking, think again. This is a delight. Too many photos in this part of India are grabbed, the results having large ethical question marks hovering over them. This is candid, gentle, clever and, to use a normally hideously overused word, timeless. It arrests my eye, I dwell on this for a while –the hardest currency of any photograph. I love the movement of the cleaner, the calmness of the Sadhu, the different languages on some of the many long-faded advertising notifications. A difficult shot, no, but perfectly composed. Some geek would probably pick holes in that too, but this works, everyone’s Indian cup of tea? I doubt it, but it would be dull if we all agreed. I love it Martin - you got it to a tea.
Previous Winning entries
These are incredibly difficult shots to pull off, yet this has been well conceived and brilliantly executed. It is also a candid representation, someone is clearly recounting a story and all the atten…
I have seen thousands of Indian sunsets, they rarely short-change, this certainly does not. It has the primary ingredients of colour, silhouette, and composition but it is the questionning nature of t…
Andrew’s recent travels have taken him all over the colourful country of Tibet. He sent us a lot of images this month and with a couple of exceptions, they were all very good - a couple outstanding.…
The ancient baobab boulevards are by no means virginal in terms of photography. I’ve seen them at sunrise, sunset, with startling blue skies and with about 40 tourists shooting them.This however is …
Madagascar featured strongly in this month’s entries, but it wasn’t the striking scenery or endemic lemurs that caught the eye, it was the infectious smile and warmth of the local Malagasy populat…
