Meet Tamma Srinivasa Reddy, the Indian photographer who has been recognised as the Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society this year
The HinduTamma Srinivasa Reddy, 55, is the only Indian photographer to be recognised as Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Britain, this year. Unlike international photographers who specialise in one genre of photography for decades, photojournalists in India juggle multiple assignments in a day — crime to politics, festivities to lifestyle.” Reddy is the 18th Indian and third Telugu-speaking photographer, after the late Rajan Babu and Kusuma Prabhakar, to be recognised by the Royal Photographic Society, UK. Reddy also travelled to Mangaluru, and again, noticed international students wearing masks, “This was a sign of things to come.” He returned to Vijayawada just before the nation-wide lockdown. What he witnessed within the hospitals left him shaken: “Each photograph has a story to tell.” He witnessed the work of hospital staff who braved the stifling heat of the PPE kits in Vijayawada’s summer.
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