To be a successful photographer, you definitely need the skills of photography first, but one thing I can share on my personal experience is that you can always learn and develop your skills if you have the genuine interest. But to make a living out of it, to be successful, one should always consider focusing on the business side of the art.
As of my background, I belong to a middle-class family of artists. That's what I like to call it. My dad is a fine artist educationally though he adapted with time to survive. Now he is into more digital forms of art as in graphic designing and animation.
Whereas my elder brother is a commercial artist educationally, working as a storyboard artist for multiple firms, and here I am the descendant of them with a patience level, pretty low. Hence a photographer maybe. I don't have to paint and wait for it to finish. I just have to observe & photograph.
2. How do you think photography helps one connect with the world and its diverse cultures?
In very simple words, a connection is established once you are aware of something or someone's existence. That's what a photograph does. It captures people, race, culture, emotions, etc. and makes it possible to be viewed by someone living seas apart.
3. What professional photographers have influenced your work, and how do you incorporate their techniques into your photographs?
I cannot name any because there are several. Learning from the techniques one apply does help, but learning from the experience of other artists is what I believe makes the impact on someone's work. I go through quite a few podcasts and interviews of the artist I look up to. More than the techniques they share, their experience helps me a lot to develop myself and learn and explore things for myself.
4. Do you think editing is important for bringing out the meaning of a photograph or the colours in it? Or do you prefer raw images?
Editing, it's absolutely subjective. It's important and not important at all at the same time. It depends on your style and how you personally perceive your own work. To invoke an emotion you can play around with the editing since you have the freedom mostly at your fingertips, so why not try something if there is a possibility!
5. What's your favourite thing to photograph?
Just have a very simple answer for this, people & their emotions also with a touch of the environment they belong to!
6. What, according to you, are the important skills one should have to be a successful photographer?
To be a successful photographer, you definitely need the skills of photography first, but one thing I can share on my personal experience is that you can always learn and develop your skills if you have the genuine interest. But to make a living out of it, to be successful, one should always consider focusing on the business side of the art.
7. What are the biggest challenges you have faced to capture a moment or to get the perfect shot you want?
There have been a lot of incidents but the biggest challenge that I have faced is surely not from the outer world, it's all inside me. The challenge of knowing when to stop. You can never be very sure of a perfect shot.
Because the next moment that you're unaware of can build up to more 'perfection'. We never know what's really perfect and with this uncertainty trying to capture something in hopes of it being perfect, that's really challenging.
8. What are some tips you would like to share with amateur photographers?
Always and always, explore & experiment. Before judging others' work and criticizing your own, before complaining about the medium and the equipment that you have around you, make sure you have exhausted the abilities of that certain equipment.
9. If not this, what would you be doing?
So I am a college dropout. In all fairness, I have no idea what else I would have been doing. If not this, zilch! Never thought about it, left myself with no option and with no backup. Still struggling as a photographer,
but atleast here I know that I want to do this!
10. Which is your favourite book/show and why?
I aspire to be a filmmaker. That dream doesn't seem close, maybe too far off in the future but since my heart lies in cinema, I am not very technically aware of it, but emotionally I am all into cinema & filmmaking. Hence, it's impossible for me to name any, there's a lot!
Bio-
As a photographer, I would like to tell everyone to keep exploring. It is the most important thing in the world for a photographer. My motto is always to “Keep exploring & experimenting”. I love photography and I want to earn through my photography no matter what the genre is, I always enjoy my time with the camera.
Interviewed By - Nimisha Dutta
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