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Pablo Bartholomew
Pablo Bartholomew (New Delhi, India, 1955) is
an independent photographer based in India. He learned photography from his
father, the art critic and photographer Richard Bartholomew (1926-1985).
At a
very young age, Bartholomew began to work as a photojournalist, winning his
first World Press Photo award in 1976 for a series on morphine addicts, which
he made when he was only 20 years old. To finance his documentary photo
projects, he worked as a stills photographer in the film studios of Mumbai
(Bombay) and Calcutta, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1983, Bartholomew
joined Gamma Liaison, which represented him for nearly 20 years.
His photographs on Bhopal Gas tragedy shook the collective conscience of the world and one won him Best World Best Photo award and became an iconic photograph showing the Bhopal tragedy.
As a
photojournalist, he photographed societies in conflict and transition. His work
was published in such international magazines as New York Times, Newsweek,
Time, and National Geographic. Between 2001 and 2003, he was involved as a
tutor in seminars for emerging photojournalists, organized by World Press Photo
in India. In 2013, Pablo Bartholomew was awarded Padma
Shri.
To know more about him, see:
http://www.pablobartholomew.com
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