THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:
Rakesh Nair
, principal photographer of The
Times of India
’s Thiruvananthapuram bureau, has won the
Covid-19 Big Picture Award
instituted by the
Thomson Reuters Foundation
, in association with Omidyar Network.
Rakesh’s photograph, ‘Rest in peace’, published in
TOI
’s August 15 edition, portrayed the city corporation’s cleaning workers paying their last respects to a
Covid-19
victim at Shantikavadom, the civic body-run crematorium.
Of the over 500 entries received from 91 countries, the Foundation-constituted panel shortlisted 14 photographs, before announcing three winners. Wara Vargas (Bolivia) and Mohammad Rakibul Hasan (Bangladesh) are the other two winners the Foundation announced on Wednesday.
A panel of judges, comprising the CEOs of the Thomson Reuters Foundation and Omidyar Network, as well as three professional photographers, Mike McCoy, Lynsey Weatherspoon and L Kasimu Harris, selected the winning photographs that “shed light on the stories of ordinary people living in extraordinary times, and bring into sharp focus the human impact of Covid-19 in its myriad forms.”
Rakesh, a post-graduate in
broadcast journalism
, has been with TOI since 2011.
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