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Luminous Ladakh Photo Tour Workshop

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Our Luminous Ladakh photo tour workshop offers a completely unique and compelling array of image opportunities. Ladakh is a magical land that abounds with otherworldly high mountain landscapes, often punctuated by green oases, crystal blue lakes, and rich, verdant valleys. Exotic ethnic people and portrait ops are also plentiful, including with blue or green eyed Dards. Nomadic Pushmina goat herders roam grazing lands, and Tibetan traders with their two-humped Bactrian camels travel vast dunes and winding trails to their next outposts.

A 90 minute flight from Delhi, Ladakh is surrounded by the two highest mountain ranges in the world – the greater Himalaya and the Karakoram, the collision of which you’ll be able to photograph from Turtuk. Ladakh is often called “Little Tibet”, and is very much reminiscent of the Dalai Lama’s homeland before the Chinese. Thiksey Gompa looks like a smaller Potala Palace in Lhasa. Stunning ancient monasteries adorn hilltops with jagged mountain backdrops. Lamas and young monks wear distinctly Tibetan maroon and yellow robes, and blow those crazy long horns! If you always wanted to visit Tibet but probably won’t, come to Ladakh…

Your fearless leader on this high adventure is award winning photographer, Swarup Chatterjee. Swarup is always great fun to travel and work with, and one of the most creative snappers we know. Check out a very interesting recent article about him on this top photography website.

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World’s Photo Artists Unite for Gender Equality (A project supported by the United Nations)

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Turtuk, is one of the northernmost village of India situated in the Leh district of Jammu and Kashmir located in the Nubra tehsil, 205 km from Leh, on the banks of the Shyok River. It is the only Balti region under the Indian administration on which India gained control over after the 1971 war with Pakistan. Geographically, Turtuk lies in the Baltistan Region and is one among four such villages in India, the other three being Tyakshi, Chalunkha and Thang. The residents of Turtuk and its adjoining villages speak Balti language along with Ladakhi and Urdu. Turtuk is the last outpost of India at Thang after which Pakistan-controlled Gilgit-Baltistan begins. Turtuk is one of the gateways to the Siachen Glacier. Turtuk is also very famous for the availability of different varieties of fruits especially apricots. While in Ladakh, adopting birth control is often considered unholy, in Turtuk, it is also customary on the girl child (irrespective of the age) to take care of her male sibling. Here are three photographs of sisters taking care of their younger brothers in Turtuk. The photographs were shot during the third week of July 2019 at Turtuk. In a world conscious of gender equality, there are still areas where gender plays a huge role in terms of division of social responsibilities. As a photographer, while I came across numerous such situations wherein sisters were cradling their brothers, I didn’t come across a single occasion where I could see the opposite.

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The Kumbh: World’s Greatest Human Spectacle

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Photographing the Kumbh Mela is a challenge almost as great as the event itself. It’s rare in the life of a photographer to have the opportunity be on scene at the largest religious spectacle on earth – India’s Kumbh Mela. Much like the aspirations of every devout Muslim to attend the Haj at Mecca at least once in their lifetime, the same is true for devout Hindus attending the Kumbh Mela.

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Low Light Night Photography Walk

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Night photography is a different genre by itself. This is one such interesting genre of photography wherein the deficiency of light – (which otherwise is the basis for any photographic output) interestingly creates an opportunity for a dark background and therefore a lot of creativity with artificial light.

Date: 4th May 2019

Time: 12 PM – 3 PM

Venue: Tea Villa Cafe Front, MG Road, Kala Ghoda Fort, Mumbai

Photography Masterclass @ Crystal Hall

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If you love photography and wish to improve your clicking skills, come join me for a 1-day photography masterclass. The session includes theory on travel photography as well as a Mumbai Heritage Photo Walk to practise what you learn.

Date: 17th February 2019

Time: 10:00 AM

Venue: Crystal Hall, Fariyas Hotel, Apollo Bandar Road, Colaba, Mumbai – 400005.

I gave up Painting to do Photography, and it Shows in My Work

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Painting and photography are often considered similar artistic expressions. Henri Cartier-Bresson was a painter before he became a photographer, and became a painter again in his retirement. While his artistic sense informed his photography in terms of his ability to see the world in constantly changing light and compositional potential, he never considered photography as art.

I can only wonder: if HCB had lived to see the full potential of digital and how it has afforded us the ability to paint and create with light as never before, might he have come to change his mind?

As a painter, I always cherished the gentle friction of brush over canvas, the pressure used to create those sparkling nuances that brought my imagination to life. I would always begin with a brush but would quickly find my fingers smudging the colors. This technique has often provided an additional depth and added an element of life in my paintings…

Read the full article at PetaPixel.

Canvas of Emotions: Featured in Sunday Chronicle, Headliners

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Painter-turned-photographer Swarup Chatterjee captures movements, colours, expressions and action in his photographs.

From dry leaves, crows taking wing,  an angry passerby’s expression to a beggar in tears sitting in a corner and colours of freshness after a monsoon downpour, painter-turned-award winning photographer Swarup Chatterjee captures varied movements, expressions, colours and action. “My story is that of a little child who always wanted to be an artist — a painter. However, just like in most middle-class households, my parents wanted me to become a doctor, engineer or…

Read the full article at Deccan Chronicle.

20 Remarkable Images from Rising Star Indian Photographer, Swarup Chatterjee

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Swarup Chatterjee is an award winning Indian painter who changed the course of his artistic expression to street photography just a few years ago, and people are taking notice. He’s already begun winning photographic awards for his images expressed with a painterly vision – a vision that shines through the full range of his work, surreal to a documentary.

Chatterjee says his slow-shutter image making is the closest to his painting, with his camera movements during the exposure similar to the thumb or finger smudging done on a canvas with paint…

View the full feature by Bored Panda.

 

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