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Renaud Philippe Photography – French Photojournalist

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Renaud Philippe is a French freelance photojournalist based in Quebec City, Canada. He is co-founder of Stigmat Photo -  A Photojournalism Agency . After getting a degree in journalism, he fell in love with India and the Himalayan regions where he has traveled several times. Renaud is deeply determined to follow his way and to make his pictures become a tool to awaken the collective conscience on social issues.
His work has appeared in publications including MacLean’s, Canadian Geographic, Mare magazine, Global Post, Le Figaroand Days Japan.

Call for Entries for “The Second International Pixpa Photo Challenge”

Dear All,

We would like to thank everyone who submitted photographs to The First Pixpa Photo Challenge. Given the overwhelming response to the first contest, we are excited to announce “The Second International Pixpa Photo Challenge!”

THEME:  Contrast

We are looking for striking and original images that express Contrast through their subjects – contrast between spaces or shapes, between colors or contrast between themes or protagonists.
The images can be black & white or color under any category – abstract/illustrative, portrait or landscape.

The second international pixpa photo challenge

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
- You can post your entries to Pixpa’s wall on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PixpaCommunity
- Or send your entries to photochallenge@pixpa.com
- Make sure you include a caption with each entry.
- Please submit JPG files only with minimum 1000 pixels width.

PRIZE:
- The winner gets a Pixpa Pro portfolio website (See examples here).
- The prize includes two years subscription to a Pixpa Pro website including hosting and support.
- The shortlisted list of finalist entries will also be featured in a website on the competition.
- The winning entry will be published on the Pixpa website and the Pixpa Community on Facebook.

TIMELINE:
You should submit your works before 31 July 2010.
The winners will be announced on 20 August 2010.

RULES:
By entering the Pixpa Photo Challenge you must accept the terms and conditions given below:
- Participants must be 18 years or above on 1 June 2010.
- The Pixpa Photo Challenge is open to all professional and amateur photographers.
- The competition has no entree fees.
- You can submit up to 5 entries.
- The copyright of any entry submitted will be owned by the photographer.
- The participants warrant to the organizers that the copyright of the entries submitted by them is owned by them and required permissions have been taken from any model or property featured in the photograph. In case the work was commissioned by a third party, the photographer must take the permission of the person who commissioned it, before submitting the entry.
- The entries submitted for the competition can be used by Pixpa for marketing and promotion purposes of the competition in online or offline mediums without any payment to the photographer or to any third party. This free use will only be in connection with the promotion of Pixpa Photo Challenge and Pixpa shall give a credit line to the Photographer in case of any such use.
- The organizer of this photo competition is Pixpa – http://www.pixpa.com

Please remember that you must adhere to the above stated terms and conditions to be eligible for the competition.

So all you photography enthusiasts out there – budding students,amateurs or professional photographers,hurry and send us your entries.

About Pixpa:

Pixpa is a platform to deliver custom-designed portfolio websites to photographers, artists and designers. Pixpa portfolio websites empower creative professionals to easily and successfully leverage the power of the internet to showcase their work and promote their business.

For more information, contact:

Arvind Sharma
PIXPA Team
Email: photochallenge@pixpa.com
Website: http://www.pixpa.com

Announcing the winner of the The First International Pixpa Photo Challenge 2010

The jury of the First International Pixpa Photo Challenge 2010 has selected a photograph by Iranian photographer, Saeed Rezvanian titled ‘Days’.

The winner was selected from a wide selection of diverse, evocative expressions that we received as entries for this photo contest. We would like to thank all the participants for the overwhelming response to this contest.

Prize
Saeed Rezvanian will receive a Pixpa Pro portfolio website. The website will include 2 years of hosting and support. The winning entry will be published on the Pixpa website and the Pixpa Community on FaceBook – www.facebook.com/pixpacommunity.

A selection of the shortlisted 50 images is available on www.pixpa.com/retrospect2009. The shortlisted finalists will receive a substantial discount on Pixpa Portfolio websites.

About The First International Pixpa Photo Challenge!

Pixpa was looking for best works from 2009 – evocative, dramatic and interesting images that you have captured in 2009. The images could be black & white or color under any category – abstract/illustrative, portrait or landscape.

About Jury:

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

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.

Call for Entries for “The First International Pixpa Photo Challenge”

Dear All,
The New Year is here. And Pixpa would like to celebrate the new beginning by announcing “The First International Pixpa Photo Challenge!”

Call for Entries for “The First International Pixpa Photo Challenge”.

Theme: Retrospect 2009
We are looking for your best works from 2009 – evocative, dramatic and interesting images that you have captured in 2009. The images can be black & white or color under any category – abstract/illustrative, portrait or landscape.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
- You can post your entries to Pixpa’s wall on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PixpaCommunity
- Or send your entries to photochallenge@pixpa.com
- Make sure you include a caption with each entry.
- Please submit JPG files only with minimum 1000 pixels width.

PRIZE
- The winner gets a Pixpa Pro custom designed portfolio website valued at USD 1000.
- The website will include 2 years of hosting and support.
- View examples of Pixpa Pro custom-designed websites.

The shortlisted list of finalist entries will also be featured in a website on the competition.
The winning entry will be published on the Pixpa website and the Pixpa Community on FaceBook.

TIMELINE
You should submit your works before 28th February 2010.
The winners will be announced on 15th March 2010.

RULES
By entering the Pixpa Photo Challenge you must accept the terms and conditions given below:

- Participants must be 18 years or above on 1 January 2010.
- The Pixpa Photo Challenge is open to all professional and amateur photographers.
- The competition has no entree fees.
- You can submit up to 5 entries.
- The copyright of any entry submitted will be owned by the photographer.
- The participants warrant to the organizers that the copyright of the entries submitted by them is owned by them and required permissions have been taken from any model or property featured in the photograph. In case the work was commissioned by a third party, the photographer must take the permission of the person who commissioned it, before submitting the entry.
- The entries submitted for the competition can be used by Pixpa for marketing and promotion purposes of the competition in online or offline mediums without any payment to the photographer or to any third party. This free use will only be in connection with the promotion of Pixpa Photo Challenge and Pixpa shall give a credit line to the Photographer in case of any such use.
- The organizer of this photo competition is Pixpa – http://www.pixpa.com
Please remember that you must adhere to the above stated terms and conditions.

So all you photography enthusiasts out there – budding students, amateurs or professional photographers, hurry and send us your entries.

About Pixpa:
Pixpa is a platform to deliver custom-designed portfolio websites to photographers, artists and designers. Pixpa portfolio websites empower creative professionals to easily and successfully leverage the power of the internet to showcase their work and promote their business. For more information visit http://www.pixpa.com

For more information, contact:
PIXPA
Email: photochallenge@pixpa.com
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UK : + 44.20.8144.1041
India : +91.98101.89321

George Menon Wedding Photograhy

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George Menon is born and brought up in Christchurch, New Zealand. Now he is a well established wedding photographer in London. His work reveals the magic of joy and his creative style by capturing the spontaneous emotions and magical moments. He is an expertise in black and white images too. He believes in capturing casual, natural and contemporary images, as his photos are creative, expressive and emotive.

Surge Images – Expressive, Artistic, and Contemporary

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Surge Images is the photography studio of Gary Umberman.

Gary has been professionally shooting for over eight years, His personality and passion for creating beautiful portrait images has become a major draw card for editorial, portrait and wedding clients alike. Whether it is commercial, fashion, portrait or wedding photography, Gary combines his extensive photographic knowledge with a unique style and creativity. The result is photography that is both artistic and contemporary

Sanjay Austa Photography – Diverse Hues

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Sanjay Austa studied English literature in college and started out as a journalist without a clear writing mandate. So he got an opportunity to cover a range of issues (and non-issues) ranging from socialite evenings to socially and culturally relevant stories.  He wrote about politicians and prostitutes. About writers and vamps. Good samaritans and criminals. About triumphs and failures and joys and tragedies.

The switch to photography was gradual. His photographs and his choice of subjects however reflect his journalistic pedigree. His first assignment took him on an adventurous two-month expedition to Kanchenjunga, where unshaved and unbathed for that duration, he documented the Indian Army’s climb to the summit. Since then he dabbled in all forms of photography. But he reserves a special liking for photo-essays on different human-interest issues. These are published regularly in the Indian and the International Media. His photo-essay on the 1984 anti-Sikh Delhi riots was exhibited in California by various human rights groups. More recently he has done four picture books on four different Indian Monuments for Penguin Books.

Amit Sharma: Multi-faceted expressions

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“….It is important to be true to the subject and not cloud it by ego or  a certain style.”

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.

Salman Usmani – Advertising and Commercial Photography

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Salman is an Advertising / Commercial Photographer, based in India. He has worked with Tehelka, an Indian weekly. Earlier he was with IndiaPicture.  Salman has also worked on documentary films and a book on photography.