Dhairyakant Chauhan (Titi) Memorial
All India Photo Competition Winning Photographs
Last date of submission is - 25th December 2024
Theme: “Wedding Moments”
A new or difficult task that tests somebody’s ability and skill. NPF – 2025 invites photographers to submit their works with their own interpretation of the subject.
The depiction of the theme could be visual as well as conceptual and from any genre of photography.
Submit your best work for the Contest and showcase your unique visual storytelling through our easy-to-use Google Form submission link. Click Here
Photography Submission Rules: 1. Participants can upload upto 3 photographs.
2. Photographs should be submitted in .JPEG format and should be no more than 2000px on longer side.
3. You are required to provide a unique title & description for each image submitted.
4. Basic editing, including colour enhancement, the use of filters, and cropping of the Photo is acceptable, provided any such editing does not affect the authenticity of the Photo.
5. NPF reserves the right to call for original JPEG or RAW files with unchanged EXIF for the purpose of authentication. An image maybe disregarded if this information cannot be provided.
6. Submissions will not be accepted after the deadline. (25th December 2024)
Titi’s photographic work spanned over 47 years, an intensive artistic practice that lasted till he breathed his last. He was stationed in USA and worked across the globe for a considerable period of his career. Titi captured some of the rarest cultural dioramas, unraveling of pastoral nomads life and mysteries of India, life style of Central Asia, Africa and the USA.
Titi dedicated his life to cultural exploration, documenting and articulating the polyvalent aspects of breathing cultures before they disappeared in the making of modernities and cosmopolitanism.
Titi received several national and international accolades including Bombay Natural History Society’s recognition for a rare female blackbuck with horns. Lalit Kala First prize in Wildlife photography, honours form Alliance Francaise.
His exhibition travelled to the Gandhi Memorial Center in Washington, DC, Grange Museum UK, Gujarati Literary Academy at Nehru Center, UK and Yorkshire