Kavyanjali Kaushik - 2013 Travel Photography Scholarship Entry

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

Bhutan | Friday, July 5, 2013 | 5 photos

I had always thought I could never do justice to a place by merely writing about it. But then I picked up an old point and shoot camera and began to understand that whatever I lack in my words, I can make up for it with my photos. Photos directed how I would write about a place and words began to flow like stories that were always inside me, but never found the right medium to come out.

I am a traveller. Not an aimless one. I take it as my duty to document a place when I visit it. I feel the urgency to record, preserve and protect it in my camera, so that if the place is beautiful, it can remain so, and if it is disturbed or being degraded, it would implore me to return to it and heal in whatever way I could whenever I looked at its photographs.

This scholarship empowers me to become a better travel photographer. I'd hate to come back from a place and discover I could have shot better, I could have documented better, I could have shown better the other side of the world to my side of the world. This scholarship would help me bridge the gap between how I shoot now and what I am actually capable of. It would help me catapult myself to limits which I am yet to discover.