For twenty year-old Pablo Bartholonew, a freelance photographer from Delhi, the announcement that his photo-feature on morphine addicts had won the prestigious
Golden Eye Award organized by the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam, came as much of a surprise to him, as indeed to everyone who knows him.
Pablo's extraordinary series of eight photographs depict a woman in the various stages of injecting a dose of morphine in her arm. The series, which Pablo shot with a Leica camera, are part of five case-studies he has done on drug addicts. "I was introduced to photography at the age of 12 by my father," said Pablo, "and like everybody else I started with a box camera."
Pablo does not do any journalistic or magazine assignments but he is a professional who supports himself "by doing print and processing jobs for various people and organizations."
