Very solid and attentive street photography style going well with today’s contemporary breed of photographers. Meet Suvankar Sen from Kolkata for whom photography started as a mere hobby and then transformed into a beautiful profession. In this brief interview with us, Suvankar opens up on his views about photography and…
Phulia is a small town in the Nadia District of West Bengal, approximately a hundred kilometers from the main city of Kolkata. It bodes clusters of Tant, Jamdani and Dhakai; the latter two found majorly in parts of Bangladesh now. The art form showcases intricate and detailed hand-stitched work from…
This guy is unbelievable, astronomical photography is no looking for decisive moment or filling up your frame. This genre of photography is so much closer to science or in particular astro physics in that matter. Feels weird and sounds so much unlike the photography we all have known till this…
Bishwa Ijtema is and annual global Islamic Congregation held at Tongi, Bangladesh by the river Turag. It lasts three days and is attended by over five million Muslims, making it one of the largest congregations after the Hajj to Mecca and the gathering of Muslims in Karbala, Iraq. Devotees from…
Empty Roads to Silent Doors, Hidden Wars to Graffiti Walls. In the name of Allah, Stop it. People ask us what is our dream? We say a “HOME” said one of the refugee I met in Israel. Life is difficult, sometimes we only wish to be alive and nothing more…
The disappearance of the travelling cinema in the outskirts of our cities can be alluded to several factors – the least of which is not the real estate boom because vacant land is swiftly being built upon. But, seen along with the rise of the multiplex, it also suggests the…
In 2003, a group called the Durbar MahilaSamanwaya Committee started a residential home for kids from various brothel colonies at Baruipur, a small town near Kolkata. The group, long active in advocating for the rights of brothel workers in Kolkata, felt the need to do something for the children of…
Simple yet a very notable portfolio from Saurabh Chatterjee, being a trainer himself in photography these photographs here gives us a great insight into the creations from a teacher. Saurabh believes he will see the whole of India which is very vibrant and diverse, in other words a paradise for…
In Bengal, Gajan and Charak stand unique in the scenario of Bengal festivals and in today’s modern age. Hindus celebrate the festival mainly on the last two days of the month of Chaitra, just before Bengali New Year. Basically this falls around mid-April. Although it is celebrated mostly in rural…
A Banker by profession, Rajagopalan Sarangapani hails from the southern part of India & surprises us with his super vibrant and colorful photographs. More interestingly, he tells us that photography happened accidentally to him. A lot about his involvement with a hardcore photography group called CWC (Chennai weekend clickers), which had…
Aman Chotani is a wonderful travel photographer who shows us what it takes to be successful. In this short yet informative interview, Aman speaks about his stint as a photographer, the lessons learnt through those hard tests, the photographers he assisted, numeorus boundaries he had crossed for seeking beautiful light…
This series of photographs have been shot in a Cast Iron Foundry of Howrah. The workers here are mostly Illiterate and mostly backward. They work in a temperature of 47° C. A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a…
The Tiger: An Animal, A Myth Around the months of September and October each year, as the ten days of Dussera near, boys and men in the region of Karnataka known as Dakshin Kannada prepare to become tigers. Goddess Durga’s steed, the tiger is an animal that is at once…
In today’s digital world, access to camera has become relatively easy, so everyone with a camera is a photographer. But there are few who stand apart and make an identity. I personally relate to this identity crisis, have I lost my identity on the streets while making one?? Yes, its…
I have spent my entire life in this big city called Pune in India. But never in my life had I experienced it in a way I did in the last few months. Last year, I walked a couple of times clicking pictures through the streets of old Pune or…
These photographs are all about the life styles of the people in and around Kolkata. The real heart of the city lies in its people. These pictorial candids portray the hardships they have to go through every day. Their emotional connect with the city. The cultural aspects of the people…