ART OF
INDIA p h o t o g r a p h y by a n j a n g h o s h
ART OF
INDIA p h o t o g r a p h y by a n j a n g h o s h
I am passionate about photography, especially in rural and semi-urban life. India is a country where the main essence comes out from the rural areas that makes it unique among other countries. My intention is to search this uniqueness and produce them on the global platform. Urbanisation is swallowing down our daily life style in a rapid pace. Yet, the Indian villages are competing with this urbanisation in a positive way for a long time. I do go to the interiors of my state [West Bengal] and literally ‘research’ the village life style. And then, if the need be, take a few snaps. I try to capture only those moments of a village or a rural life, which would bring out the hardcore truth about the subject. Sometimes, I have to face challenges to get the required snaps. My intention is not to show poverty or the poorness of Indian villages, but to portray something which would eventually come in aid of the rural people. And the good news is, I am getting support in this regard. It is slow, but a steady process! A few of my like-minded friends are becoming aware of my intention, are showing interest to take some positive actions. We have taken a pledge that by this, if we can at least try to ‘change’ the life of one family in any part of our state; or in India, we would be greatly obliged. And by doing this, if we can ask or request the government to take some positive actions to change the condition of the village for the better, it would be a great achievement for us. I am an optimistic person, and I definitely believe that in the near future, more people would be interested in this endeavour.
ART OF
INDIA
India, officially the Republic of India (Bhārat Gaṇarājya),[e] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west;[f] China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia. The Indian subcontinent was home to the urban Indus Valley Civilisation of the 3rd millennium BCE — one of the world’s earliest civilizations.[19] [g] In the following millennium, the oldest scriptures associated with Hinduism began to be composed. Large
scale urbanization occurred on the Ganges in the first millennium BCE leading to the Mahajanapadas, and Buddhism and Jainism arose. Early political consolidations took place under the Maurya and Gupta empires; the later peninsular Middle Kingdoms influenced cultures as far as Southeast Asia. In the medieval era, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam arrived, and Sikhism emerged, all adding to the region’s diverse culture. Much of the north fell to the Delhi sultanate; the south was united under the Vijayanagara Empire. The country was unified in the 17th century by the Mughal Empire. In the 18th century, the subcontinent came under the Maratha Empire and in the 19th under the British East India Company, later shifting to British crown rule. A nationalist movement emerged in the late 19th century, which later, under Mahatma Gandhi, was noted for nonviolent resistance and led to India’s independence in 1947.
In 2017, the Indian economy was the world’s sixth largest by nominal GDP and third largest by purchasing power parity.[16] Following market-based economic reforms in 1991, India became one of the fastest-growing major economies and is considered a newly industrialised country. However, it continues to face the challenges of poverty, corruption, malnutrition, and inadequate public healthcare. A nuclear weapons state and regional power, it has the second largest standing army in the world and ranks fifth in military expenditure among nations. India is a federal republic governed under a parliamentary system and consists of 29 states and 7 union territories. India is widely recognized for its wide cinema, rich cuisine and lush wildlife and vegetation. It is a pluralistic, multilingual and multi-ethnic society and is also home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected habitats
ACCREDITATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS: 2012: Exhibited photographs at Group Show Kolkata, a Kolkata Photography Group
Hungarian Information And Cultural Centre, 1-A Janpath Near Claridges Hotel , Delhi 2017: Sixth Dimension presents
2013: Certificate of Merit by Indian Institute of Photography Kaleidoscope India, 2013
International Art Show
2014: *Selected for the Foodscapes story by National Geographic
2017: EikonCultureVisualReflections
*Came second In a photography competition conducted by China Humanity Photography Association
Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, International photo exhibition Italy PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Current Status (Since August 2007)
*Photograph published by Brick Field at Photoburst
Graphic Designer & Visualizer
2015: *Portfolio published by Photography World
Waterfront,16A, Sarat Cahtterjee
*Participated in the Spirit of Art exhibition organised by Spirit of Art, Spain with participants across
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TRISYS COMMUNICATIONS. Avenue,Kolkata-29 Other interests: Painting, Music, Traveling, Photography
100 nations 2016: Faces of The World, The World of Faces - Photo Exhibition by Margareta Turos (Hungary) and Anjan Ghosh (India).
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