It took me more than seven years to bring out this story. It started one evening when I stumbled upon a set of photographs which I had taken while my wife was battling cancer. I don’t know why I took those images, perhaps I wanted to freeze a dying moment…
This is Varanasi, but not the one I used to perceive. While having lassi, a sweet Indian drink made from yogurt, seating in a tiny restaurant in an alley of Varanasi near Manikarnika Ghat, I witnessed that people were carrying dead bodies for cremation and chorused “Ram Naam Satya Hain”…
Nasik Kumbhmela 2015 | Maharastra, India Sadhu, Smoking weeds, and holy bath are the most common scenarios when the word ‘Kumbhmela‘ strikes our mind. I did not rule out capturing them but tried in different and less visited area like Gangadwar where better experience is encountered in various ways. Exploring…
Our precious Life. “We want to be normal (sane) like you.” This is what they wanted from me from their world. “I want to be normal, normal and normal.” These are the words of the pure heart. Words coming from mind which we call to be not in control. I…
I must personally admit initially when i started out exploring my passion for street photography i was very shy as a person and i always thought it’s not polite to photograph unknown people. I always wondered how do street photographers take photos of complete strangers without permission and not get…
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…