World Photography Association has announced the overall winners of the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards. The Photographer of the Year award was bagged by Italian artist Federico Borella for “Five Degrees”, his series of photographs focussing on male suicides in the farming community of Tamil Nadu in India, which is facing its worst drought in 140 years. Borella was selected … [Read more...]
BenQ Announces PhotoVue 4K UHD Monitor
BenQ has launched PhotoVue SW271, a 4K UHD 27” professional photographer's monitor offering industry-standard HDR10 support and advanced colour performance. Covering 99 percent of Adobe RGB, the SW271 delivers the colour accuracy of Delta E≦2 performance with its 10-bit IPS panel and advanced 14-bit 3D lookup table (LUT), according to BenQ. The monitor is also Technicolor … [Read more...]
Digitek Launches Flash Bot Kit
Digitek has launched Flash Bot, a kit of durable accessories and attachments for flash photography. The easy-to-carry kit with instant universal fit includes a grip, a gel mount, a grid, a flash diffuser, a modifier and different-coloured creative gels, packaged in a box measuring 14.5 x 13 x 18 cm. The Flash Bot kit is priced at Rs.9995. Further descriptions of the … [Read more...]
Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2019
The Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2019, an adventure and action sports photography contest, is open for entries. Currently in its fifth edition, the contest has added two categories, 'Best of Instagram by SanDisk and the 'Moving Image' category for video sequences between 5 and 30 seconds, which are open for submissions from 1 February to 14 June and 1 May to 31 July, … [Read more...]
Foy Nissen’s Bombay: Photo Exhibition at Jehangir Nicholson Gallery
The Late Foy Nissen was a contemporary archivist and historian of Bombay (now called Mumbai), who conveyed his love for the city by documenting its architectural monuments, people and festivals through black and white photographs. His complete range of photographic works, including gelatin prints, negatives and slides was handed over to the non-profit Jehangir Nicholson Art … [Read more...]
