"Maintenance at Dusk"
Location: Chillika Lake, Odisha, India
Date: December 2024
Photographer: S. Snehil Pulluri
Affiliation: Graduate Student
Home Country: India
Category: People
Award: Third Place and People's Choice
2025 International Photography Exhibition
“A fisherman at Chilika Lake, the largest coastal lagoon in India, repaints his boat blue before heading back home for the day. Despite this being taken at sunset, it was still a scorching 85 degrees outside. The fisherman hides in the shade and under the colors of his boat -- like a poetic illustration of the ways occupation can be at once protective and also restrictive in India.”