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BANGALORE: Pinjalim Bora, a software engineer from Bangalore has emerged the global winner of Nokia Nseries ‘See New’ competition, a mobile photography competitions aimed at uncovering new photography talent and offering a launch pad for aspiring photographers.
After winning the Indian leg of the competition, Pinjalim Bora’s image, ‘The Nose Ball’ was selected as the global winner by a panel of judges comprising leading photographers, Raghu Rai, Juergen Teller, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Nick Waplington and Jiancheng Dong.
The Nokia Nseries ‘See New’ Competition announced in October 2005 saw tremendous participation from people across the globe over the past six months. The measure for this competition was to capture a moment from a different angle or something never previously photographed using a mega pixel camera phone.
Speaking on the occasion, Raghu Rai, documentary photographer and one of the judges said, “I felt Pinjalim Bora’s image was very well-focused and had an exposed frame. The photographer has also shown real mastery of using the camera phone medium by capturing a sharp, clean and spontaneous image.”
Congratulating the winners of Nokia Nseries ‘See New’ competition, Gautam Advani, Director, Multimedia, Nokia India said, “I congratulate Pinjalim Bora on emerging as the global winner of this award. This is a reflection of Indian consumers’ creativity, comfort with technology and ability to integrate the two in their lives.
As part of this recognition, Pinjalim wins a lifetime opportunity to spend a day with Raghu Rai assisting him on a photo shoot, two flights on Virgin Airlines and Nokia’s flagship photography device- the Nokia N90.
Elated with the acknowledgement, Pinjalim Bora, winner of the Nokia Nseries ‘See New’ competition said, “I am overwhelmed to have received this recognition from Nokia and Raghu Rai. I took the picture with my Nokia 3230 on one fine Sunday morning when I stepped outside to pick up the newspaper and it happened to be completely spontaneous. I am looking forward to spending the day assisting Raghu Rai on one of his photo shoots and enhance my photography skills using Nokia’s N90 advanced imaging device.”
Fellow judges included internationally renowned photographer, Juergen Teller who selected ‘The Stairs to Perdition’ by Razvan Velev from Romania; leading American photographer, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia who chose ‘The Swing’ by Subhash Sharma of the USA; award winning London-based photographer, Nick Waplington who selected ‘Geko’ by fellow Brit Anders Fraser and Jiancheng Dong, a prominent landscape and documentary photographer from China whose chosen image was ‘Seaside’ by Mark Higginson from Australia.
Besides getting a chance to spend a day assisting the photographer who selected their image, all of the runners up will also be awarded a Nokia N90.
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