Warner Bros. Discovery and vivo India Conclude vivo Imagine Smartphone Photography Awards, Select Six Winners from Thousands of Entries – Times of India

Warner Bros. Discovery and vivo India, the trusted global smartphone brand, concluded the vivo Imagine Smartphone Photography Awards, embarking on a wondrous journey to capture brilliant images fueled by participants’ imagination and the remarkable camera of their vivo devices.The jury, consisting of writer-filmmaker Zoya Akhtar and renowned photographers Vineet Vohra, Aamir Wani, and Rakesh Pulapa, awarded six exceptional achievers in different categories from a pool of more than 21,000 entries, along with a Jury’s Choice Winner from the contest.
While the Jury’s Choice Award winner will receive a cash prize of INR 5 lakh along with a vivo X90 Pro smartphone, the winners in each category will receive a vivo X90 Pro smartphone. The Jury’s Choice Award winner will be the vivo-appointed photographer or a ‘vivographer.’ The winning entries will be showcased on Warner Bros. Discovery India’s and vivo’s official social media handles.
The vivo Imagine Photography Awards contest was held in collaboration with vivo and EssenceMediacom and GroupM Motion Entertainment. The awards also collaborated with Warner Bros. Discovery to showcase winning entries.
Speaking about the event, Tanaz Mehta, Executive Director of Advertising Sales South Asia at Warner Bros. Discovery, said, “The vivo Imagine Smartphone Photography Awards on the Warner Bros. Discovery network have been a great success. This collaboration has unearthed incredible talent and creativity prevalent in the country. At Warner Bros. Discovery, we’re always looking to tap into passionate communities and have succeeded in doing that with this contest. The association has been a celebration of India’s best visual storytellers and we are glad to have partnered with vivo for the same.”
Winning in the category of architecture is a beautiful shot by photographer Murtaza Ali, while photographer Saikat Gupta’s raw representation of a wrestling event won in the Culture category. Photographer Abhishek Patel’s vibrant shot of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai won in the Motion category, while photographer Prakash Karuppannan’s misty shot of a valley won in the Nature category. Photographer Sakaram Pavan Kumar captured a brilliantly lit starry night and won the Night category, while photographer Prayag Samal won in the Portrait category with his captivating shot of a woman. Photographer Saikat Gupta’s entry also won the Jury’s Choice Award.
About Warner Bros. Discovery
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About EssenceMediacom
EssenceMediacom is GroupM’s newest and largest agency, committed to delivering marketing breakthroughs for brands. It has disrupted the old models across media, creative, innovation, and analytics to find new opportunities for advertisers and deliver truly integrated media solutions. Borne out of two pioneering agencies, EssenceMediacom fuses Essence’s performance, data, analytics, and creative technology DNA with MediaCom’s scaled multichannel audience planning and strategic media expertise.
As part of WPP, the world’s largest marketing communications services group, and GroupM, WPP’s consolidated media investment management arm, we have access to the richest data, most robust benchmarks, and most advanced capabilities in the market. This helps us provide comprehensive solutions to all marketing challenges. Our ‘breakthrough’ ambition is underpinned by our commitment to ‘continuous learning’. We aim to ensure our people fulfil their potential by investing in their whole-person well-being, careers, and capabilities, which in turn helps grow our clients’ businesses.
EssenceMediacom, with 10,000 people across 120 offices in 96 markets, is one of the world’s leading communications specialists, with billings of more than US$21 billion (Source: COMvergence, 2021). Its global client roster includes Adidas, Coca-Cola (WPP Team Open X), Dell, Google, Hasbro, Mars, NBC Universal, P&G, Richemont, Shell, Sony and Uber. Additionally in India, some key local clients include Airtel, Flipkart, Parle Agro, NPCI, VIVO, and Makemytrip.