Silhouette - Professional

Untitled 03

Girish Menon
India

Nominee

"Untitled 03"
FORT COCHIN, KERALA, INDIA – MARCH 2010. The mammoth Chinese fishing nets that line the coast along Fort Cochin in the southern state of Kerala in India are a sustainable source of livelihood for the fishermen living there.

Biography: Girish Menon has been an editorial fine art photographer since 2002. A solo-backpacking trip from Mumbai across the Southern tip of India way back in 2003, turned life around for Menon. Having set off with a camera and 30 rolls of film, this I.T. programmer discovered a world he didn�t know existed; an organic world � simple, pristine and beautiful. As an explorer, Menon �saw strange places and met stranger people�. Life was never the same again. Formal training in photography immediately followed. The young lens man travelled through Maharashtra, publishing numerous photo essays...

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