Gajan is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly in the Rural part of West Bengal. Gajan spans around a week, starting at the last week of Chaitra continuing till the end of the Bengali year. It ends with Charak Puja Participants of this festival is known as Sannyasi or Devotee. Persons…
Clever, progressive, decisive and this guy wants to show something different from the mass of street photographers. Meet Soumyendra Saha from Kolkata, whose pictures are refreshing in this casual yet compelling genre of photography. His words are clear as his vision and his love for new found passion is quiet…
In the spiritual world gender roles are adopted for the transcendental purpose of reciprocating with the supreme lord and rendering loving service. In Hinduism remarkable amount of gender variance can be found. People from the Third sex – homosexuals, transgenders, transsexuals etc. identify with these Gods / deities and worship…
Trupal Pandya pursues his degree in photography and presents such stunning and commendable work on the genre of portraits. His work finds perfect balance within the culture that needs definite attention lying on a narrow brink of being entirely extinct. Trupal’s works deserves a lot of applause and actually took…
The story that I am presenting is of an Ashram in West Bengal which teaches the Vedas. Vedas, in Hinduism, are considered to be revelations. The students admitted here are specifically Pure Brahmins coming from various parts of West Bengal. These pictures depict their unique Life style. 1) Prat-Jagaron: The…
Very interesting juxtapositions on street photography from Devansh Jhaveri. In this amazing interview with us, Devansh reveals a lot on his knowledge towards photography, various concepts and his understanding beyond this certain genre. Speaking about his photographs, there is a clever balance of compositions and color schema within his portfolio,…
Over the past few years I have found the diversity of my interests in photography and attraction to subject matter varied widely. Last year I did the craziest thing a 27-year-old could do: I quit my full-time-with-benefits office job without having another official job lined up.The short answer to that…
Meet this aspiring talent with abundant energy and incredible passion. A clear path towards street photography, Shweta Agarwal shows us her promising portfolio on this very demanding street genre. She believes in capturing the depth in every moment and the photographs shown below are definite examples. The Compositions with light…
Beaches are celebrated to be a neighborhood for recreation, a place to let go of the day-to-day life and have a quiet time. It is, in most metropolitan cities, also known for its beach side properties and sea-facing villas for the affluent communities. But Mumbai, India’s economy capital differs from…
The Road Workers are some of the poorest and most marginalized sections of society. In India, they are mostly migrants from remote villages, often are less educated and not cautious about different preventive measures. Recently I happened to visit one of a road construction site in the outskirts of my…
Kaushal Parikh’s Fragments of a Spinning Rock, a culmination of almost a decades work spread across India, is finally going to print. A poem by Pablo Neruda broadly describes the feelings behind the images in the book: “Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or María, all…
Some scenes reciprocate a state of mind. These scenes could be of a very mundane place or maybe grand view of Himalaya. But, not necessarily all grand views resonate a mind. In this series of black & white images, I have tried to photograph natural places, with little known and…
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta The above quote by Ibn Battuta makes a lot of sense. We are all travelers through the pathways of life. Along these chequered pathways, we meet and leave friends, stay glued to our families and…
Jayanta Roy explores the unseen beauty of the mighty Himalayas from Ladakh. In this mindblowing photo series, there is no disguise for the pure art form and here these black and white photographs show more than the ultimate aura of the mountain range. This is eternal bliss and the photographer…
Bapi da is lonely man living in the pilgrim town of Tarakeswar in West Bengal District, India. He has no close relatives, no close friend. He is an just another ordinary beggar. But that’s not how I found him when I met him in the bus stand in Tarakeswar. He…
Every year ‘Hujur Saheber Mela‘ is held annually along the international border between India and Bangladesh on 5th and 6th day of the Bengali Calendar month of Phalgun (February). This fair serves as a unique bridge between the two nations, just near the zero-line on the India-Bangladesh International Border at…