Photographer Swapan Parekh, Nikon India MD Hiroshi Takashina and Editor of Better Photography K Madhvan Pillai announced Arpan Mukherjee as the Nikon - Better Photography Photographer of 2010, at Vatika Lawns, Pragato Maidan, New Delhi. Photograph/Raj Lalwani.

Photographer Swapan Parekh, Nikon India MD Hiroshi Takashina and Editor of Better Photography K Madhvan Pillai announced Arpan Mukherjee as the Nikon - Better Photography Photographer of 2010, at Vatika Lawns, Pragato Maidan, New Delhi. Photograph/Raj Lalwani.

The journey that started with close to 60,000 entries, eight stunning themes, an elimination round done by the best in the photographic industry and a final face-off in Singapore, culminated into a grand event on 6 January 2011. Nikon India MD, Hiroshi Takashina and the Editor of Better Photography, K Madhavan Pillai announced Arpan Mukherjee as the Nikon-Better Photography Photographer of the Year 2010, at Pragati Maidan, amidst much cheer. He won a Nikon D300s and was also awarded the title of the Evangelist Photographer for the Singapore Tourism Board.

Mukherjee, a teacher at Santiniketan, West Bengal, is also the theme winner of Photo Essay—A Place Called Home. He won the contest after competing with seven other theme winners, in a face-off that took place in Singapore.

As a part of the Singapore face-off, the eight theme winners shot on the themes Life and Glow after Dusk, Active and Adventurous Singapore and also made two photo essays on Dare, Dream, Do—Your Singapore in a New Light. The final submissions were then judged by photographer Swapan Parekh.

A Gallery of Theme Winners and Face-off Photographs