Kavyanjali Kaushik - 2013 Travel Photography Scholarship Entry https://journals.worldnomads.com/kavyanjali/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:34:12 GMT World Nomads Adventures 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. https://journals.worldnomads.com/kavyanjali/photos/43342/Bhutan/My-Scholarship-entry-A-place-I-have-visited Travel Bhutan kavyanjali https://journals.worldnomads.com/kavyanjali/photos/43342/Bhutan/My-Scholarship-entry-A-place-I-have-visited#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/kavyanjali/photos/43342/Bhutan/My-Scholarship-entry-A-place-I-have-visited Fri, 5 Jul 2013 05:53:00 GMT 0 Growing up in India, it was hard not to be fascinated with the "Kashmir Story". You hear it from your grandparents, who heard it from their parents and who heard from their parents. The "K" word was everywhere and as you can imagine, it lost its charm. I come from a family of travellers. I've covered tons of heard, unheard, famous, quiet, dirty, serene places in India and yet I avoided Kashmir. Simply because it got into my head that it is over-rated. But finally, this August, my mother convinced me to fly from Bangalore to Srinagar for a little vacation. I did. And I'm so glad I did. Kashmir was nothing and every bit like the words that are often used to describe it. But I realised that everybody views Kashmir in their own way. I saw it breathing again. Many of the shikarawallahs (boat men) that I spoke to said this year is the best in terms of tourism. There were smiles on faces, there were people on the road, and Kashmir was booming again. These pictures try to capture some of the liveliness that I saw. In terms of colours, people and places. Originally I'm from Delhi, but settled in Bangalore & working with Reuters as a business correspondent. I graduated from University of Westminster last year with a journalism degree, but my love of photography that was gifted to me by the beautiful city of London stayed on. I intend to earn my way to a masters in photography eventually, but in the meantime, I want to learn, grow and click on my own, through my experiences. This scholarship is something I would never have applied for. But that's what photography taught me, and well The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, that "when you have to shoot, just shoot. Don't talk". It inspired in me the confidence to approach people, to play with light and to see the world differently. https://journals.worldnomads.com/kavyanjali/photos/30995/Worldwide/My-Photo-scholarship-2011-entry Travel Worldwide kavyanjali https://journals.worldnomads.com/kavyanjali/photos/30995/Worldwide/My-Photo-scholarship-2011-entry#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/kavyanjali/photos/30995/Worldwide/My-Photo-scholarship-2011-entry Tue, 1 Nov 2011 16:29:16 GMT 0