11 Feb 2022 | 04:21am IST
Touching newer heights in photography
A team of photographers are scheduled to represent the country at the World Photographic Cup where they will be awarded medals for their work. The team leader a Goan spoke about the challenges ahead
Ajit John
A team led by a Goan
photographer has won three awards at the World Photographic Cup and will
receive the awards in Rome at an event which will be held in the final week of
April and the first week of May. The team led by Rohan Goes had a team of nine
who contributed photographs across different categories. Now three from that
team are going to Rome, of which two will be receiving awards and two others
have expressed their interest in being part of the team.
Rohan
said one of the Indian winners is in the category of Nation award from the year
2021 and the second one is for the year 2022. Another winner is in the top 10
final group and he is confident the individual will bring in the third medal
for the country. The group is now in the process of going around meeting with
corporate and individuals seeking donations to help fund their trip. Rohan said
the program would be a wonderful opportunity to meet photographers from
different parts of the world and exchange ideas. He expressed the hope there
would be a much entries from India. He said “From a population of a billion, we
were able to get only ten people interested, which was very disappointing. I
hope to get a lot more people interested for the next edition of the WPC”.
Speaking
about the competition he said the WPC was founded in 2013 as a cooperative
effort by The Federation of European Photographers (FEP) and Professional
Photographers of America (PPA). Its singular goal was to unite photographers in
a spirit of friendship and cooperation. A governing committee was created to
conduct the ongoing affairs of the competition, also supported by United Asian
Professional Photography and Australian Institute of Professional Photography.
He said photography was a bond that transcends language, culture, and
geography. That’s the foundation behind the World Photographic Cup.
It is a competition with
teams of photographers representing their home countries. Each country is
allowed to enter one team. Each team develops its own process for choosing
images to enter Teams may enter up to three images in each of six categories:
Portrait, Wedding, Commercial (including advertising, architecture, industrial,
fashion, etc..), Illustrative/Digital art, Reportage / Photojournalism, Nature
(Landscape / Wildlife).
Last year it could not
be conducted because of the Coronavirus and this year is expected to be a gala
event.
Rohan said it was always
interesting to meet other photographers from other countries because the
approach to photography was dictated by ones culture and even sex. He said
“Women approach a subject so very differently and so it always makes for
interesting conversations. Even across cultures, the manner in which one
approaches a subject is so very different. Yet at the end of the day all
photographers follow a certain routine. It is always an interesting
experience.”
One can only hope the team will be able to
be present at the event scheduled to start on April 30 and end on May 3.
