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Belagavi-based photojournalist Pundalik K. Badiger has been chosen for the Karnataka Chhaya Ratna Award.
His enactment volition beryllium showcased astatine a national-level photography accumulation astatine Tripura Vasini, Palace Grounds, successful Bengaluru connected Friday.
Mr. Badiger has chronicled respective areas, events and personalities successful North Karnataka for implicit 25 years now.
Hailing from Saundatti successful Belagavi district, Mr. Badiger began arsenic inferior creator who painted nameplates for shops and offices. This led him to gully cartoons. He soon got an accidental to enactment arsenic a cartoonist successful the Nadoja newspaper.
He began arsenic a paper lensman done the Samyukta Karnataka daily. Later, helium started moving successful galore starring dailies successful the country, including The Hindu and Udayavani, and made a unsocial people arsenic a nonrecreational photographer.
Through his photograph essays, helium has documented issues of borderline areas similar the Kannada-Marathi agitations and issues faced by linguistic minorities.
He has besides covered regular events similar governmental developments, elections, societal struggles, spiritual programs, taste festivals, accidents, disasters and each time travails of the communal people.
Some of his pictures of the North Karnataka floods of 2005 and 2009 person been published successful nationalist and planetary publications. He has besides photographed wildlife and landscapes astir Belagavi.
He has received assorted awards similar the District Rajyotsava Award, the Bimba-Bhav Award from Chhaya Foundation and Shristi Sangathan and Baburao Thakur Best Photographer Award.
Exhibitions of his photographs person been held successful Chitrakala Parishat, Bengaluru, Dharwad and Belagavi.
