Tag Archives: K. Gopinathan

T.S. SATYAN Awards for Photojournalists

sans serif is pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural T.S. Satyan Memorial Awards for Photojournalism, instituted by India’s first web-based photosyndication agency, Karnataka Photo News, in association with churumuri.com, in memory of the legendary photojournalist who passed away two Decembers ago. The awards will be presented by the governor of Karnataka, H.R. Bhardwaj,…

How this baby made a lensman cry 19 years later

For news photographers life is one endless “assignment”. The ticking timepiece, the pressure to capture The Moment better than the others on the beat, the boxing for space between “video” and “still” leaves little room for reflection, even less for poetry. In staff-strapped Indian media houses, the sublime and the ridiculous—ministerial visits, seminars, crime scenes,…