JKAACL announces State Photography Awards

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 1: J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages (JKAACL) today announced the State Photography Awards for the years 2013-14 and 2014-15.
The awards carry prize money of Rs 20000, 15000 and 10000 for 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions, respectively.
Giving details, Secretary, JKAACL, Dr Aziz, informed that the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize for 2013-14 competition have been bagged respectively by Anand Sharma for his photo titled ‘Sunrise’, Adnan Ali Zahidani for his picture ‘City of Saints’ and Arshad Hussain for his image ‘Innocent companions’.
Besides the three main awards, four consolation prizes of Rs 1000 have also been announced in respect of Ch Sunder, Syed Hamza, Surjeet Singh, and Tumul Magotra.
For 2014-15 competition, the first three prizes have been bagged by Satish Chalotra for his photo titled ‘Flowers need care’, Amrit Kour for her picture ‘Clowns’ and M Akram Khan for his image ‘Sharing the experience’ while the winners of three consolation prizes are OP Sharma, Pankaj Kumar and Parveen Kumar.