Photo Competition Alert | #FlavorsOfFreedom by Courtyard by Marriott

Upload a picture that best describes the term #FlavorsOfFreedom & stand a chance to win a 1 year ‘Club Marriott’ membership. Up to 10 finalists (best entries) will be invited to experience the #FlavorsOfFreedom food festival at  Courtyard by Marriott, Mumbai

– Upload a picture that best describes the term #FlavorsOfFreedom. The pictures have to be uploaded on the Facebook app here https://www.facebook.com/CourtyardbyMarriottMumbai/app_422118604517529

– Up to 10 finalists (best entries) will be invited to experience the #FlavorsOfFreedom food festival at  Courtyard by Marriott, Mumbai on August 9 or 10, 2014. This will also form the second round of the contest. 

Finalists will have the pleasure of enjoying the #FlavorsOfFreedom food festival

Finalists will have to create a pictorial story to explain their experience at the #FlavorsOfFreedom festival (on Instagram) using not more than 3 pictures clicked at the festival. 

Pictures have to be uploaded on Instagram only. 

One winner will receive a complimentary 1-year ‘Club Marriott’ membership

If the overall participants are over 250 unique users; there will be 10 finalists.

If the overall participants are below 250 unique users; there will be 5 finalists.

By participating in the contest users agree that they own all the rights to the image including the contents in the image.

Each of the finalists will receive a complimentary dining voucher for 2 (Food & Non-alcoholic beverages) that can be redeemed on August 9 or 10, 2014 at the Flavors Of freedom festival

It is mandatory to present the voucher while redeeming it.

Courtyard by Marriott, Mumbai can use any of the images for their promotional purposes. 

With the Independence day just round the corner, we bring to you our ‘Flavors Of Freedom Food Festival’ an eleven-day food festival that celebrates the diverse ‘Indian cuisine’ by featuring a new regional cuisine everyday (for dinner) starting August 5, 2014. The festival ends on August 15, 2014 with an ‘Indian Brunch’ that showcases the best of ‘Indian Cuisine’.

Membership of the ‘Club Marriott’ program entitles the Card holder to a range of benefits and privileges. Click here for details http://www.clubmarriott.in/mumbai-marriott.html

Simone Bramante is a photographer, digital artist & more importantly a storyteller from Bologna, Italy. Bramante is known to capture & freeze wonderful & quirky moments that we usually tend to ignore.  He uses his camera as well as his iPhone to tell visually appealing stories. Nature is always an inspiration for him. Having over 10 years of experience in visual communications, he is also a digital creative director for an agency in Italy. Bramante limits his Instagram feed with shots clicked using his iPhone. He was listed on the Forbes list of 10 Instagram photographers to follow and on the Vogue list of 8 stylish photographers to follow on Instagram. His feed on Instagram is admired by many. Bramante has over 540k followers on Instagram.

Follow Bramante on Instagram @brahmino

Amit Mehra (b. 1967) has been photographing for over twenty-five years. In addition to international editorial and advertising work, Amit Mehra has specialized in documentary & architectural photography as well. Recipient of the award, Best Photographer of the Year – Asia in 2009 by the Sagamihara Museum, Japan for his book, India, A Timeless Celebration, Mehra has time and again demonstrated the ease with which he traverses different genres of photography. Photographs from this series are part of the collection of the Gabbaron Foundation, Spain and the Sagamihara Museum in Japan.

Amit’s photographs have been widely exhibited in, London, New York, Tokyo, Sydney, Madrid, Milan, Melbourne, Dhaka, India.His work has been published in Time, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, Architectural Digest, Condensate, Finacial Times, London and National Geographic.

His latest photo book Kashmir published by Penguin and he is currently working on his next book project, Sufis: Messengers of Peace.

He lives in New Delhi, India.

Sydney based photographer, Geoff Lung has been shooting for 20 years. His work encompasses people and lifestyle, food, travel, architecture and interiors and still life. Geoff Lung is known to have started a new trend in food photography during the mid 80’s.  Overseas photographers would often call Lung to ask him how he had bought to life foods such as red meat that are usually difficult to click.

His work appears internationally in advertising as well as magazines. He travels frequently, shooting in most parts of the world. His clients include multinational companies, book publishers, magazines, international advertising agencies and international hotel groups.

Lung has also shot for various cookbooks including Gordon Ramsay’s Passion for Flavour in 1996. Geoff Lung is also responsible for the photos you see on our hotel website www.courtyardmarriottmumbai.com

Click here to view Geoff Lung’s website that includes some of his workhttp://www.geofflung.com

Luke Casey was born and brought up in the English port city of Plymouth. After studying with the intention of becoming a journalist, Casey left the UK upon graduation and moved to rural Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Casey began to take pictures of the Japanese countryside, and what started as a passion quickly developed into a calling.    

In 2012, after volunteering for the Japanese NGO Peace Boat and disembarking in Tokyo, Casey hitch hiked through Japan and Korea before moving to Hong Kong where he now lives and works as a photographer. Casey is noted for choosing to use traditional photographic techniques, shooting mainly on film for his own photographic art projects. In November 2013, Casey was invited to exhibit a selection of his works in the Hong Kong based gallery Time and Space, the porthole series proving particularly successful with buyers.

Returning to the UK, Casey worked at the BBC, Channel 4 and Nippon TV but never felt satisfied. A speculative approach to Dazed & Confused secured Casey his first photo shoot and he hasn’t looked back since. Whilst in London, Casey did ongoing work with Dazed & Confused as well as Vice and Intersection.     

Casey is also recognised for his commercial work in digital photography and filmmaking, commissioned on projects for various brands and organizations, most recently directing and producing a promotional film for the Marriott hotel as well as luxury jewellery brand John Hardy.

Instagram account (luke_s_casey)

Paulo del Valle (@paulodelvalle) is a 25-year-old photographer and designer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is also a Professional Instagrammer and he gets to create campaigns for companies and be invited to travel around the world to promote countries. Paulo decided to become a professional photographer when he became an Instagram Suggested User in 2012 and he’s been focusing his work in landscape photography since then. Paulo has also shot for Nike during the recent World Cup. He also loves to photograph minimalism, food, geometry and portraits, which can be seen on his second Instagram account (@paulo_delvalle).