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Announcing the Jury for “The First International Pixpa Photo Challenge”

The First International Pixpa Photo Challenge 2010 will be judged by Amit Sharma and Mustafa Quraishi. Amit and Mustafa will bring all their experience and distinct view points to the challenging task of selecting the winners from the many intersting, diverse and evocative expressions that we have received as entries for this photo contest.

To view their body of work, please visit:

Amit Sharma – www.amitworks.com
Mustafa Quraishi – www.mustafaquraishi.com

About Amit Sharma:
Amit Sharma is a self taught photographer based in Delhi, working mainly in the field of lifestyle,fashion and travel. He shoots regularly for Publications like Travel + Leisure , Maxim and has shot prestigious assignments for Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, Femina etc.

About Mustafa Quraishi
Mustafa Quraishi specializes in social documentary photography and is based in New Delhi, India.

As a boy he dreamed of flying choppers for the Indian Army, but Mustafa discovered his real calling as early as his late teens. At 18, he joined the Delhi offices of The Indian Express and after five rich and eventful years, Mustafa joined the Associated Press and moved to Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. It was while he was in Andhra Pradesh that he began documenting the world of India’s ultra leftwing Maoists who have been running a armed insurgency against the State from their vast jungle bases in Central and South India. It is while working on the underground Maoists in the jungles of Andhra Pradesh that the thought of documenting the movement and its lives and faces through an extended photo-essay struck Mustafa. Since then, Mustafa has made several, and often perilous, journeys to the remote and inaccessible heart of the Maoist struggle to put together a rare and singlular photo archive on a subject that currently occupies centrestage in India.

Mustafa’s work has taken him to other ports of action and human tragedy, the Asian tsunami of 2004, the serial bombings in Delhi in 2008, Inauguration of Hamid Karzai’s government in Kabul 2009 the overthrow of the Nepali monarchy. His work from such flashpoints has found place in prestigious publications like The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, GEO magazine, amoungst others.

Posted in: Scratch Pad, What's New by pixpaadmin on February 4, 2010