Everyday Mumbai

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Everyday Mumbai
Type of site
Photoblog
OwnerChirag Wakaskar
URL Everyday Mumbai on Instagram
CommercialNo
LaunchedJuly 2014
Current statusOnline

Everyday Mumbai is a photoblog and collective of photographers capturing daily life in Mumbai (also known as Bombay), India.

Contents

It was started in July 2014 [1] by photojournalist Chirag Wakaskar. [2] [3] [4] [5] The blog [6] is using instagram as its primary platform. [7] [8] [9] [10]

Awards

Everyday Mumbai [11] [12] was one of the Winner for the year 2017 [13] in the category Citizen Media & Journalism for creating a crowd-sourced photography community by Social Media for Empowerment.

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