The winners of the sixth edition of DJ Memorial Photography Contest (DJMPC) instituted by Lakshmi Machine Works Limited (LMW) took home cash awards to the tune of ₹10 lakh on Sunday.
DJMPC was instituted in 2012 in memory of D. Jayavarthanavelu, past chairman and managing director of LMW, who had a passion for photography.
Sachin Rai from Karnataka won the first prize for his photo titled ‘The brothers throne’ in the wildlife category. Nitin Jain from Maharashtra bagged second prize in the category for his photo ‘Rush hour’.
In the landscape category, Karnataka photographer Digwas G. Hegde's ‘Lonely tree’ won the first prize. The second prize in the category went to ‘Trans Himalayan scape; by Debraj Chakraborthy from Assam.
While winners took away cash award of ₹2.5 lakh each and certificates, runners-up got cash prize of ₹1.5 lakh each and certificates. Ten participants in each category bagged certificate of merit with a cash prize of ₹10,000 each.
Sanjay Jayavarthanavelu, chairman and managing director of LMW, gave away the prizes in a function held at Kasthuri Sreenivasan Cultural Centre. DJMPC-2017 received 6,674 entries from 1,484 participants across the world. The participants had registered for the contest through the online portal www.djmpc.in between May 1 and June 30.
The entries were judged by a jury panel consisting of Balan Madhavan, Apurba Kumar Das and S. Theodore Baskaran. K. Maruthachalam was the contest administrator.
Rajyalakshmi Jayavarthanavelu inaugurated the public exhibition of selected photographs. The exhibition will be open for public viewing till August 4.
