By Paritosh Pramanik
ASHUTOSH Sharma, a digital artist, a visualiser and a photographer from Nagpur, has once again made the city proud after his photograph got selected for the United Nations’ Exhibition to be held on April 6 at Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Every year, United Nations Office of Sports for Development and Peace celebrates International Day of Sports for Development and Peace (IDSDP).
This year the UN organisation launched a campaign ‘We play together’ and invited participants to share a picture on social media that represents for them the power of sport to promote peace, unity and inclusion.
This year, Sharma clicked a photograph of hijab wearing girls from Municipal Urdu Girls School, Kamptee playing football while learning through Slum Soccer’s EduKick initiative.
Sharma sent his entry for the campaign with detailed description of the photograph which got selected for the exhibition.
Sharma’s photograph will now be displayed at the UN’s exhibition on April 6, the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace.
This will be third straight year when Sharma’s work will be appreciated by the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace.
Earlier in 2015, a photograph clicked by Sharma won second best prize in which photographers from all over the world participated.
Last year, Sharma’s photo got selected for the UNESCO’s Poster Competition which had fetched him the second prize.
“I applied for the competition after I came to know about it through UN’s twitter account. I mailed my photograph along with the description. I also mentioned the objective and initiative taken by Slum Soccer,” Sharma told ‘The Hitavada’.
“Slum Soccer’s EduKick focuses on promotion of primary education for children from underprivileged section of the society. The organisation has designed football games in such a way which teaches Mathematical topics such as number system, tables, even and odd numbers, BODMAS and profit and loss,” explained Sharma about the topic of his photograph.
Sharma received a mail from United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace on April 4 stating that his photograph has been selected. “We would like to congratulate you and your great initiative and to let you know that your photo has been selected to be displayed in the photo exhibition on the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace on April 6,” the mail read.
Sharma, who is also Proprietor of Ms Mindwings, a creative agency, has also created exclusive portraits of Bollywood stars and also got chance to present the same to them in person.
“I have made portraits of Bollywood legends Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan, Priety Zinta, Lucky Ali, Rajkumar Hirani and Nita Ambani. I was lucky to hand them those in person,” said an elated Sharma.
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