A sip of flower market in Dadar

Obscurities of a traveller

beatraveller — Tue, 8 Sep 2015 09:45:09 GMT

Winning this entry would definitely mean a lot to me as I would get to travel to an unknown land and film under the mentorship of an expert. I have a great desire to create visual stories and meanings and this entry could take me more closer to my passion. Above everything it would be a great relieving experience for me to find an escape from the usual schedules of life and to soak myself into other cultures and communities of the world.
Filming and interviewing Terence has completely revived my perspective about being a traveller. He doesn’t have a house, he manages by sleeping at public shelter spots and uses public restrooms. He is constrained by financial means too but all these problems do not create any havoc for him to be a traveller. He makes his bread and butter being a tour operator. He has a vision to see things beyond the usual sights and he brings life to everything. He is alone but yet the grace and joy, comes through loud and clear.

Portable thoughts

beatraveller — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 08:07:50 GMT

The one without money always have the deep desires and dreams to fly and so as my life has been and when you are beaten by the travel bug its the cherry on a cake in dreams. With amateur skills and shallow pockets, but with strong desire and passion I landed up to a creative vision. Viewfinder, partially has become my mentor and through it, I am finding my subjects interesting. I own a background of Business Studies and Journalism but I portray more of meaningful visuals, be it pictures or videos. I believe the journey has begun now when I have figured out the road to travel. So now I am travelling on this road but without my own equipments. Thankfully good friends are around me.
Why I should be selected is because I want to take myself to that extremeness in search of that shot where I would want to live that moment thousand times while capturing that shot. To my passion I have sacrificed more than what I could to achieve that gratifying sense from my visuals, the meanings & metaphors. I think my pictures are simple yet they tell a story that gives a perspective to a human nature and its functioning. Be it videos/pictures I believe in portraying a sensible meaning.

Flower market in India

beatraveller — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:18:40 GMT

Why I should be selected is because I think I have made an attempt to extract the flavor of simplicity and an expression, a gesture that portrays big dreams in small packages. It also appeared, that their whole life belongings were right in their little jholi (cloth) where they keep money, yet the grace and joy, comes through loud and clear. An important aspect what I have traced is where their last meal came from. You no longer take as much for granted. A lovely experience - this market. Filming there was fun since people got more friendly as they don't find cameras often in the flower market. Speaking to them taught me the bigger lessons of life as how to be consistent to take your stand. I am just wandering why bollywood has not taken this place as a 3 hour film can be made on this.
Winning this entry would definitely mean a lot to me as I would get to breath something different, to taste something new. Deeply fascinated with cultural augmentation and finding out meanings, metaphors and memes from it, has always been a great experience for me. I want to connect myself and become a part of this festival and experience how they honor with sugar skulls, marigolds (comparison of usage in India and Mexico), visiting the graves and yes, lastly the local food and drinks.