Paintings on the clay walls of the tribal villages have been a long-prevailing practice in India. In West Bengal, this is known as ‘Deoal Chitra’ (means wall paintings). It is predominantly found on the walls of the dwellings of the Santhal (the largest tribal community in India) communities across Birbhum,…
Kolkata Maidan, a name that reminds the residents of this city of fresh air, sports, friendship, and a ton of nostalgia. Be it for early morning work or an evening stroll, nothing beats Maidan. This place holds a vivid range of picturesque landscape from season to season. In the winter…
Hello, I’m Riya Das, I’m a beginner photographer. I’ve started photography in 2018. I’m a learner. I love to take street moments and candids but in this quarantine, we aren’t able to go outside so I’m learning to self photograph my emotions and expressions. I got inspired by my father…
My City’s Streets has always been very nostalgic to me, whenever I go through on these, it’s every corner is so familiar to me that it evokes my emotions. Due to my work engagement, I don’t have any chance to shoot outside my city or another side of my country…
“You don’t need an ocean to feel like you’re drowning. You feel it, between your chest and your throat, the weight of it stretching you outside yourself, like a dead fish on the shore.“ I am a part of a time where an entire generation is stuck in a traffic…
But what would you do capturing the lives of these people? It’s not going to benefit you in any possible way! think about your own future. Think about your own progress…etc. Well, most of the time documentaries as such require a static level of mental strength combating against mindsets who…
Whenever Kashi is talked about, immediately we see the Ghats, the pure water of the river Ganga and the ancient alleyways of the city of Kashi. It is every photographers dream to go to Kashi to take photographs one day. It is indeed a rare opportunity to get to visit…
It had been more than one and a half months since we had been spending the lockdown at our home. And it’s very fatiguing as well as exhausting. Sitting at our homes 24×7 was not easy. So we decided to go on a sudden adventure. We reached at the resort…
I am Karthikeyan Chinnathamby who is a software engineer by profession but before that a photographer by passion. Yes, it’s all started from my school days. I don’t know why and how but I had great love towards the camera shutter(click) sound in the film cameras. I am from Periyakulam,…
Sanket Khuntale is a 29 years old commercial advertising photographer from Mumbai, India. He has been shooting from the last 13 years and the main focus is product shooting. But he loves to travel and capture people. Sanket has received many national and international awards that include- ‘Sony World Photography…
A few days ago, cyclone Amphan swept over Bengal. Last year, cyclones ‘Fani’ and ‘Bulbul’ also hit West Bengal. Bengal has never seen such frequent cyclones in the history of the last few decades. Various parts of the country are in a state of devastation due to successive cyclones. Especially…
It has been a score of years, I last wrote to you. Down memory lane, few glimpses are flashing within me. I am not going to ask you how are you as I know from the core of my heart that you are fine. Is it the strict, imposed, isolated…
For us who grew up in the eastern part of our country, three places made a permanent place in our sensibilities. Digha, Puri and Darjeeling, humorously acronymed as DiPuDa, are the places which Bengalees always find closest to their heart. Any plan for a summer or winter retreats for the…
My name is Pritam Sen and I am 28 years old and I belong from Kolkata. I have taken up photography as my hobby since 2016. Street photography is the primary genre I am attracted to along with travel and landscape. The ghats and the markets of Howrah have always…
I am Subhabrata Roy, based in Kolkata. I am practicing street photography since 2017. Though I bought my first DSLR in the year 2013 but like most of the amateurs, I was not sure about my point of interest at the beginning especially with the genre. After a few years,…
Amid this Pandemic when we all went into lockdown it was a mixed feeling of anxiety, fear and monotony. Being a photographer it was sometimes very frustrating to sit indoors though it was essential for the current condition. So I decided to do something indoor itself and tried my hand…