UK Digital Cameras Blog

The BBC has announced the results of a photography exhibition which centred on snaps captured by mobile phones and focusing on the region of South Asia.

First prize went to Ravinder Kumar Gupta of Gurgaon, India, who captured a shot of a workman dealing with a jumbled mass of overhead cables in her hometown.

For his efforts he received a Sony Digital Handycam and speaking of his award, he told the BBC: “I’m very excited to learn that my picture won the first prize, it’s really just unbelievable.

“It is very surprising for me…one day I read about the bbcnews.com contest, sent some pictures taken from my Nokia mobile and I never thought at that time that I would win,” he added.

A digital camera was won by Vipul Khattar from Kanpur in India for another photo of a workman while Umair Mirza of Karachi, Pakistan, scooped the third prize for a photo of the floods that affected the city recently.

The BBC reports that other photos captured by digital cameras were entered to the competition though these were not eligible to win.