National award for 1st woman photographer

Jul 28, 2010 - Age Correspondent |

New Delhi

India’s first woman photojournalist, 97-year-old Homai Vyarawalla, has been selected for the first-ever national photography award for her contribution to the field before and after the Partition.

A total of four photojournalists have been selected for the awards being given for the first time in order to commemorate the golden jubilee celebrations of Photo Division, a media unit of the information and broadcasting ministry.
Official sources stated that the objective of constituting these awards was to honour the creative and long-standing contribution of photographers in their respective field. The awards will be conferred by vice president of India M. Hamid Ansari on August 19. The awards include a cash prize of Rs 1.50 lakhs, a shawl, a memento and a citation.
The first recipient, Homai Vyarawalla, studied in J.J. School of Art and started her career as a freelancer with Illustrated Weekly. Her depiction of political events have remained imprinted in public memory since several decades. The second recipient is S. Paul, 79 years of age, an eminent photojournalist and the first Indian to have been profiled with a portfolio of four pictures by the World’s oldest and prestigious The British Journal of Photography Annual 1967.
In the “Pictorialists” category, the Life Time Achievement Award shall be conferred to Benu Sen of Kolkata, 79-year-old, who has authored several books on photography.

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