Rising talent Sridhar Balasubramaniyam has been awarded the US$10,000 Saltzman Prize for emerging photographers, recognizing a powerful long-term body of work documenting landscapes and communities across southern India. Balasubramaniyam, a visual artist based in Chennai, won the prestigious prize from the Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) for his photo series Manarsuzhal, captured with Fujifilm's top APS-C mirrorless and Nikon's versatile full-frame DSLR. Created over several years of wandering across the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the project explores the shifting relationship between people, land, and memory in southern India.
