Overview

• An APPJA-run national contest in Vijayawada drew 552 entries from nine states, with 50 photographs selected for awards.
• K. R. Deepak of The Hindu won first prize for ‘Lightning,’ while colleague K. V.S. Giri took third in Spot News, and V. Raju and Vijay Kumar Soneji received certificates of merit.
• In Visakhapatnam, GVMC commissioner Kethan Garg felicitated Deccan Chronicle photographer P. Narasimha Murthy following his Achievement Award in the contest.
• The Assam Photojournalists Association marked the day in Guwahati by felicitating Tezpur-based photojournalist Samir Kar with traditional honors and a Rs 10,000 cash award.
• Globally, the day’s online participation turned feeds into photo galleries, and the date’s significance traces to the 1839 French announcement of Louis Daguerre’s daguerreotype.