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Taushik Mandal india
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Vitamin D
Photographer: Taushik Mandal
www.taushikmandal.com
Taushik.mandal@gmail.com
Reference: Vitamin D Council, CA (USA)
Synopsis: This project documents people’s response to sunlight, which is the main source of Vitamin D, during the summer months in Western Europe.
Description:
Healthy bones need vitamin D to absorb calcium and phosphate from our diets. These minerals are important for teeth and muscles as well. A vitamin D deficiency can make bones go soft, weak and leads to deformities. For example, in children it may trigger rickets and in adults it brings about osteomalacia or bone tenderness and pain.
The human body creates vitamin D from direct sunlight falling on the skin. In most parts of the Northern hemisphere, from the beginning of April/May to the end of September/October, we can get all the vitamin D that we need from sunlight. Being out in the sun during this time in short periods with forearms, hands or lower legs uncovered and without sunscreen, the body can make enough Vitamin D.
A number of factors such as geography, time of the day and/or year, skin color and how much skin is exposed determine the time needed to make enough vitamin D. It is also imperative to not burn in the sun by protecting the skin with sunscreen or to take cover before the skin starts to turn red. Usually people of African, African-Caribbean and south Asian origins need to spend longer time in the sun to produce equivalent amount of vitamin D as someone with lighter skin tone. Also, sitting by a window on a bright and sunny day is not enough to produce vitamin D because ultraviolet B (UVB) rays that the body needs to make vitamin D, cannot pass through the glass.
Summer is the ideal time for the body to produce vitamin
Photographer currently based in
Paris, France. He specializes in
portraiture photography and street
photography. He has completed his
European Master of Professional
Photography from Spéos
International Photo School, Paris.
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entry description
Project Name: Vitamin DPhotographer: Taushik Mandal
www.taushikmandal.com
Taushik.mandal@gmail.com
Reference: Vitamin D Council, CA (USA)
Synopsis: This project documents people’s response to sunlight, which is the main source of Vitamin D, during the summer months in Western Europe.
Description:
Healthy bones need vitamin D to absorb calcium and phosphate from our diets. These minerals are important for teeth and muscles as well. A vitamin D deficiency can make bones go soft, weak and leads to deformities. For example, in children it may trigger rickets and in adults it brings about osteomalacia or bone tenderness and pain.
The human body creates vitamin D from direct sunlight falling on the skin. In most parts of the Northern hemisphere, from the beginning of April/May to the end of September/October, we can get all the vitamin D that we need from sunlight. Being out in the sun during this time in short periods with forearms, hands or lower legs uncovered and without sunscreen, the body can make enough Vitamin D.
A number of factors such as geography, time of the day and/or year, skin color and how much skin is exposed determine the time needed to make enough vitamin D. It is also imperative to not burn in the sun by protecting the skin with sunscreen or to take cover before the skin starts to turn red. Usually people of African, African-Caribbean and south Asian origins need to spend longer time in the sun to produce equivalent amount of vitamin D as someone with lighter skin tone. Also, sitting by a window on a bright and sunny day is not enough to produce vitamin D because ultraviolet B (UVB) rays that the body needs to make vitamin D, cannot pass through the glass.
Summer is the ideal time for the body to produce vitamin
about the photographer
Taushik Mandal is an IndianPhotographer currently based in
Paris, France. He specializes in
portraiture photography and street
photography. He has completed his
European Master of Professional
Photography from Spéos
International Photo School, Paris.
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