Power to the frame | CPB Photo Awards winners of 2024
The Hindu
The Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation’s hunt for impactful images with meaningful stories is now in its fourth year
The Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation’s hunt for impactful images with meaningful stories is now in its fourth year. The latest edition of the CPB Photo Awards saw a significant increase in entries, with over 9,700 from 300 plus cities across India. The five-member jury — including names such as Daniella Zalcman, photojournalist and founder of Women Photograph, Senthil Kumaran, photographer and Nat Geo explorer, and Dinesh Krishnan, photo editor of The Hindu — had a challenge on their hands to choose only 10 winners.
The awards were established in 2019 to recognise and celebrate excellence in photography, but also to emphasise the under-recognised work of regional talent. “While the earlier editions had a greater focus on documentary photography and reportage, photographers from other genres were not able to participate,” says Shuchi Kapoor, co-founder of CPB Foundation. “Inclusion is an important focus of ours and so the fourth edition introduced genres such as Daily Life, Culture and Street Photography, Portraiture. This has allowed photographers from different backgrounds to participate.”
The winners were announced on Thursday at an awards ceremony hosted by The Leela Palace Chennai. We present their works here.
Category: Danish Siddiqui Award for Socially Concerned Photography - Photo of the Year
Cash prize: ₹1 lakh
In this stark black-and-white capture, Kakkat — a photojournalist with The Hindu and winner of the Kerala Media Akademi Award in 2020 — focuses on Arya and Akshaya. Among the first batch of female students of Kathakali at Kerala Kalamandalam, an institution aimed at preserving the artistic heritage of the State, the two were shot in June practising Kannusadhakam (eye exercises) during their 5 a.m. sadhakam (training) in Thrissur. Their entry in 2021 signalled the end of Kalamandalam’s 90-year-old, male-only tradition
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