Sailendra Kharel has won first prize at Nepal’s POY

During the summer break it was announced, that Sailendra Kharel won first prize in the category “Daily Life Single” at Nepal’s annual photojournalism contest.

Relatives mourns after a village fire in Holiya, Banke district in Nepal.

Sailendra Kharel’s prize winning picture.

You can see the some of the winning images on page 8 and 9 in this pdf of the newspaper My Republica.

Sailendra’s picture was made for the Nepalese newspaper My Republica.

Sailendra is currently studying on a sholarship here at DMJX. Sailendra passed our Photo1 this spring and is now studying at our international Photo2 programme.

The British photographer George Georgiou chaired the contest.