Sarasij Dasgupta

Born in Kolkata, I am a daydreamer who often got pulled up for doodling on notebooks and anything unwarranted. I am an ardent voyeurist since my childhood and see forms in the abstracts. I was lucky that my parents encouraged me to be what I am today.

MY HUMBLE SUBMISSION:

Koushik Sinha Roy

INTRODUCTION

Hello folks. This is Koushik Sinha Roy from Uluberia, a sub divisional town of Howrah district in West Bengal, India. He is professionally a high school teacher and a weekend street photographer who started photography in 2015. His photographs have been exhibited in many International Street Photography Festivals like Miami, San Francisco, Italy, London, Bangkok, Sofia, Athens etc. He was the winner of Leica Fedback Friday Award conducted by APF in 2017 and a Runner up in PhoSofia 2019. He was in the judging panel of The Wall Exhibition in Pafos, Cyprus. He is a member of Little Box collective and the founder of the instagram handle and Flickr pool - ‘lyrical_sp’.

Claude Renault

Hello Friends!! It’s really nice to be invited to speak about photography and also share some of my works with the readers. As a person more fluent in French, my English is not as fluent as you may expect. However, as people say art has an universal language and it connects its viewers through the artist’s prism.

For last 35 years I have been. Into photography and this is mostly my adult and more matured stage of my life.  And out of that, there has been a transition from For about the past twenty years, I have moved toward street photography through travel photography.

What I am looking for in photography is primarily to feel an emotion.

Joydeep Mukherjee

I believes that an artist's work must be good consistently to be considered as an art. He does not practice it just for the sake of aesthetics but for a cause. I take  each shot to make sense, bear sense and hit the sensible viewers. I attempts to portray the moment that would tell a story of the time to the time to come.

Photographs can be used to narrate a story, and thus have more to it than just being a work of art.  I always been inclined in capturing life in all situations. Thus, human element makes for an integral part of my photography.
 
Topic – Human Interest, what I am writing here is entirely my thinking / my Observation and My POV

Barry H. Levy

Can you please introduce yourself to our readers?

I have been involved with photography for around 60 years now.  I started as a small child with a Brownie camera and a little developing and contact making hobbyist kit.  Like most children, I started by making snapshots.  As I progressed, I was lucky to know the Art Director of Life Magazine who saw some of my photos and encouraged me to branch out and look at what other photographers were making.  This led me to photojournalism, documentary photography, and Street Photography.  In school, I actively and formally studied photography in addition to a full academic curriculum.  I also showed my work to some successful professional photographers and received critique, inspiration, and a greater knowledge of photography as art. I was able to sell some of my work in my teens.  In my early 20’s, I started my own Freelance business, but gave it up to achieve greater financial stability.  I have shot film in formats from 127, to 35mm to 2 1/4 to 4x5.  I am familiar with studio and macro work as well as other genres.  I converted to digital around 7 years ago because film is expensive and digital cameras finally achieved a high enough quality. To that end, when I retired, I enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and completed a curriculum in digital Photography.  Currently, I shoot with A Nikon D850, a Nikon Z-7 and a Leica Q while still occasionally using my film cameras.  All are excellent cameras and, depending on where I am and what I am doing, afford me the opportunity to achieve excellent results.  I do not actively promote my work, but a portfolio of my work has been accepted into the Colby College Museum of Art collection and some of my work will be exhibited there this July.

Sankar Ghose

Thank you “Photography Kolkata Platform” for the cordial invitation to feature my images in your publication. I would like to take this opportunity to share a few words and images related to your recent two themes – “Light and Shadow”  and “Juxtaposition”.

Light and Shadow :

“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say”.... Gregory Maguire.

Light is a fundamental aspect towards creating an exemplary image. Light brings not only brightness or darkness, but also it creates tone, texture, luminosity and the ambience of an image. Light is the basis of photography, we must pay a great deal of attention to light.

BHASKAR KUNDU

ODE TO THE STREET

As I write this article, I feel very happy for two reasons – first, because I have been given this opportunity by one of the most prestigious photography magazines of Kolkata. Secondly, because 19th August is World Photography Day and I am writing this article for the August Issue. So I want to start by wishing all my fellow photographers a very happy World Photography Day!

Raj Sarkar

The term Street Photography modified form of the term straight photography which means straight out of camera and it is expected that there will be no manipulation and it has to be candid or un-staged under natural light sources. Though Now a days the trend of using flash in street photography is increasing. As this genre is very interesting and possibilities are infinite it is ever evolving. There are other types of photographs also available in a different genre and these photographs are also straight out of camera viz landscape, macro photographs etc but we will not consider them as street photographs though they are straight out of the camera. The metaphor needs to be understood.

Soumya Shankar Ghosal

Thank you “Photography Kolkata” for the kind invitation to share my images with your esteemed viewers. Though the editorial team had given me an option to share images according to my preference but I found it would be worthwhile to share my work based on the current month’s  themes - “Workers around us” and “Eid and Ramadan”.

As a Street and documentary photographer I had the opportunity of exploring and documenting Kolkata for over more than a decade. Street Photography is a very interesting subject as it allows to document human lives all around us. For me capturing the moments in it truest form helps me to freeze time.