Curator Selection / 2024 / /

• Photographer
  Kshitij Mahashabde, India
• Category
  Asia
• Website
  https://www.instagram.com/advengeo/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/km.14396/

The cover photo is taken @ in Mumbai during the Mount Mary Festival. India is home to roughly 50 million youth living in abject poverty. The submission questions the reality of a this young population of india that is simply devoid. The poem depicts the plight of the youngest -

A dream in my eyes,
Can you see?

Every time a stranger sighs,
Don’t bother me!

Somewhere a child cries,
Helpless and hungry,
Wandering left, then right..
Just a glass of water, makes them feel alive.

Yet somehow, he survives & she survives,
For the dreams they sees at night...
the dream that will change their life.

I am a Mumbai-based Architect,a published Photographer,Cartographer &
Poet.

I’ve been actively working in the field of Cartography & map-making since 2018 & Photography since 2014.I am Co-Founder of “ad:venGeo” a product design firm focusing on creating products using cutting edge tools; like GIS & workflows like 3-D printing and various other
additive manufacturing as well as Rapid prototyping technologies.A niche technology practiced by very few in India.

While my professional interests are in visual aesthetics& maps.My passionate instincts take shape through the medium of photography

Awards 1 Silver Medal & 4 Honourable mentions @ MIFA - 2020
Top 30 int Re-Think Dupont Circle - Urban Design Competiton - 2021
Top 50 Marsception by Volume Zero - 2024