Four photojournalists and a journalist of The Hindu bagged awards in the ‘India Press Photo Awards - 2018’ organised by the State Photojournalists Association of Andhra Pradesh for the third consecutive year.
The Hindu’s photojournalists — K.R. Deepak, Chief Photographer, Visakhapatnam, K.V.S. Giri, Special News Photographer, Hyderabad, and M. Periasamy, News Photographer, Coimbatore, bagged the top three places in the general news and sports category. In the photo travel category, V. Peddi Raju, Principal News Photographer, Vijayawada, won a consolation award for his picture of monks rally.
Also, Special Correspondent for The Hindu in Visakhapatnam, Nivedita Ganguly won the Padma Vibhushan Awardee Homai Vyarwalla India’s First Woman Photojournalist Memorial Award carrying ₹10,000 cash prize.