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Winners of pixelhose First Photo Essay Competition

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We are pleased to announce the winners of our First Photo Essay Competition.

Before sharing the list, however, all of us here want to take a moment to thank everyone for participating – for your submissions, for viewing the posts, and for the great comments – all of which made the pixelhose contest unique, lively, and fun. Secondly, we need to stress the difficulty of selecting form amongst such wonderful submissions. At the end, our selection was influenced with a combination of the photography, the story or message, how unique the subject was, and of course, our community’s reaction.

Note that, per contest guidelines, we combined a number of categories into the General Category because of the small number of submissions. Therefore, the contest finished with four categories: Travel, Rituals, Everyday Life, and of course General. With that in mind, the selected pieces are:

Winner, Best Submission (and winner of Travel Category)
Magnificent Sikkim by Partha Pratim Saha

Winner, Everyday Life Category
Life of Reindeer Farmers by Alexander Stepanenko

Winner, Rituals Category
Pomak Wedding Ritual by Miroslav Milev

Co-Winners, General Category
Note: The above two submissions were scored exactly the same by our staff; both had extremely large following on pixelhose.com and both superbly captured the essence of the photo essay. Since we couldn’t pick one over the other, it was only fair that they both be selected!

Euro 2012 Soccer Championship by Viktor Serbin
Personal Effects by Kaveh Baghdadchi
Ivett and Dezső by Zoltán Balogh

IMPORTANT UPDATE (February 16, 2013): A new co-winner, Zoltán Balogh, was selected. The winner has been contacted. Watch this post for updates.

IMPORTANT UPDATE (February 11, 2013): Mr. Baghdadchi withdrew from the competition.Since we had added a second prize, we will go ahead and award that to another photographer. The new winner will be posted here shortly. Stay Tuned!

SECURITY NOTICE TO WINNERS: We will be in touch to complete the process. However, please do note that we will NEVER request any bank account information, passwords, credit card numbers, or national ID/Social Security numbers. Further, winners are NEVER asked to pay any money for any reason

The Fight for Rights

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Qualified Entry: pixelhose Photo Essay Contest. Category: Emotions

By Partha Sengupta

The fight for Rights - pixelhose.com photo essay contest

August, 2011, the anti-corruption crusade in India united the country with the same string. The 74 year old, Anna Hazre started his fast in New Delhi demanding government’s approval on Jan Lokpal Bill, or The Citizen’s Ombudsman Bill. His fasting Place in New Delhi, Ramlila Ground soon became a warehouse of the force against corruption. People from the entire country joined the fight. This photographs taken over my three visits to the protest ground, are just a small clip from the phase when India started realizing the power of ‘Democracy’.  See More Photos

Pomak Wedding Ritual

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Qualified Entry: pixelhose Photo Essay Contest. Category: Rituals

By Miroslav Milev
pixelhose.com Photo Essay Competition: Pomal Wedding

The inhabitants of the village of Ribnovo are Bulgarian-speaking Muslims referred to as Pomaks.  The Pomaks represent one of the Balkan cultural entities about whom a lot is said and very little is known for sure. Encapsulated within their own traditions and religious beliefs the nowadays pomak communities still preserve the vivid rites and rituals to accompany what is considered a unique nuptial ceremony.

The highlight of the wedding ceremony is the painting of the bride’s face. Her face is covered in thick, chalky white paint and decorated with colorful sequins. A long red veil covers her hair, her head is framed with tinsel, her painted face veiled with and silvery filaments. The remote mountain village of Ribnovo has kept its traditional marriage ceremony alive despite decades of persecution. The wedding ritual was resurrected with vigor among the Pomaks – Slavs who converted to Islam under Ottoman rule. Ethnographers say it is hard to date the bridal painting ritual, as the communist regime did not encourage studies into minority ethnic and religious groups.

The highlight of the wedding ceremony is the painting of the bride’s face. Her face is covered in thick, chalky white paint and decorated with colorful sequins. A long red veil covers her hair, her head is framed with tinsel, her painted face veiled with and silvery filaments.
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