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| J&K announces state photography awards | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, October 18 : The Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages today announced the prestigious state photography awards for the year 2011.
Secretary Cultural Academy Zafar Iqbal Manhas said the awards, which will be presented shortly, had been instituted for promotion of excellence in still photography.
Awarded annually for excellence in the field of still photography the awards are given in three categories carrying a cash prize of Rs 15,000, Rs 10,000 and Rs 7,000 respectively.
Apart from the three main categories five consolation prizes of Rs 1,000 each are also given.
This year the first best photography award of Rs 15,000 has been bagged by Channi Anand for his photo ''A Hope'', second prize of Rs 10,000 has been awarded to Mohammed Safeen Pakhtoon for his picture ''Children's Paradise'' and the third prize of Rs 7,000 went to Sijeel Malik for his photo ''Mid Night Sun''.
In the consolation prize category Abrar Ali Wani, Mohammed Abdullah, Parveen Kumar, Sanjay Gupta and Arshad Hussain have been selected for a cash prize of Rs 1,000 each.
The Academy held a composite mushaira at district library Baramulla in which more than a dozen poets representing different state languages participated.
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