honorable mention
Bivas Bhattacharjee indiaPhoto © Bivas Bhattacharjee
title
The Grave Digger
This portrait is of him is a portrait of harsh life in death.
Art has been in my home since childhood. My father, an eminent painter himself instilled in all of us a sense for the hyper real. A sense of what can be seen where only the mundane is visible. This sense and the “painterly” form are always present in my work.
Personally I am a family man. The inward adventures interest me far more than outward ones. The world is a beautiful place, but I do not wish to conquer anything nor critique.
The world is a moving object. I have my family, my photographs, my business but all are in constant transit. I can never capture any of them. A frame of a picture translated in time changes it meaning thus I never bother with capturing “the moment”. However, the vastness is still, it is in motion but still, and this is where I wish to draw on my work, like the misty remnants of a breath on some cosmic mirror.
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entry description
The man in the portrait is a professional gravedigger. He has been all his life.This portrait is of him is a portrait of harsh life in death.
about the photographer
I am a professionally trained photographer, and I finished my B.A. Honours in Photography from University College Falmouth, England in June 2007. I have studied economics from St. Xavier’s College Kolkata and I run my own archival quality printing & scanning company named “Old gravity”.Art has been in my home since childhood. My father, an eminent painter himself instilled in all of us a sense for the hyper real. A sense of what can be seen where only the mundane is visible. This sense and the “painterly” form are always present in my work.
Personally I am a family man. The inward adventures interest me far more than outward ones. The world is a beautiful place, but I do not wish to conquer anything nor critique.
The world is a moving object. I have my family, my photographs, my business but all are in constant transit. I can never capture any of them. A frame of a picture translated in time changes it meaning thus I never bother with capturing “the moment”. However, the vastness is still, it is in motion but still, and this is where I wish to draw on my work, like the misty remnants of a breath on some cosmic mirror.
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