Escapades

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

India | Friday, July 5, 2013 | 5 photos

I am a Communication and Advocacy professional in health sector. Photography and Poetry are the inseparable intense passions that influence my aesthetic appreciation and work.
A sense of awe grips me when a two dimensional flat defined image grows beyond to evoke a spectrum of emotions - sheer joy to melancholy that a viewer relates to. Just as I respond to a portrait of Ezra Pound by Brezon.
To me, the essence of travel photography is that sense of belonging to a space or subject, so different from that I am born into and conditioned to be by geographical or cultural boundaries. It is the experience of that momentary liberation and oneness with the subject and composition.
My constant search for a composition is the same as my search for the assent of an image in a poem.
An assignment on HIV prevention program in rural south India took me to a religious fair dedicated to ‘Goddess Ellamma’. Thousands of devotees including transgender throng there to worship Goddess. The fair was a mélange of religious fervor, cultural practices with an undertone of sexuality and a photographers’ delight.