"A place I have visited" https://journals.worldnomads.com/rohanchakravarty/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:35:10 GMT World Nomads Adventures A social misfit because of my commitment to sports, growing up was very confusing. Pursuing a degree in management post high school didn’t help this. My cushy job, a state level sprinter and rugby player, is all the worldview I had. Fate in the form of an injury changed this. To pass time, I picked up my father’s old camera and bird guidebook. Since then I haven’t looked back. Over the last 4 years, I have taught myself to be a naturalist and have worked in various reserves in India. I have seen the beautiful and the alarming. There are strong stories that need to be told. Specially, now as politics is sweeping an irreversible change on India’s last pristine spaces. Yet, in my efforts, I often find it very difficult building a photo essay using single images. The photographs turn out very direct or sensational and are often disconnected in visual literacy. While engaged in a project I fail to fathom how its progressing. A mentor, and a fresh perspective is something that has constantly been lacking in my photography. Developing a skill set and frame of mind needed to craft a poignant yet delicate photo story is what I wish to build through this scholarship and Jason Edwards. https://journals.worldnomads.com/rohanchakravarty/photos/51159/Bangladesh/My-Scholarship-entry-Where-I-belong Travel Bangladesh rohanchakravarty https://journals.worldnomads.com/rohanchakravarty/photos/51159/Bangladesh/My-Scholarship-entry-Where-I-belong#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/rohanchakravarty/photos/51159/Bangladesh/My-Scholarship-entry-Where-I-belong Thu, 20 Nov 2014 05:45:00 GMT 0 I was once an injured 21 year-old rugby player stuck in bed, idling away time photographing parrots out my window. Three years later, I was chasing light and tigers as a self-taught naturalist in central India’s forests. Every morning, inspired by the images I dreamt of the night before, I would obsess over getting the perfect photo. That fixation has driven me beyond my Nikon DSLRs and into the realm of 35mm film and my grandfather’s medium-format Rolleiflex. More than that, the forests made me acutely aware of the irreversible damage that India’s unrelenting economic growth is wrecking on pristine ecosystems. This story of ecological loss needs to be told urgently – and powerfully. Yet, for my constant striving to be a good photographer, I now realize that it isn’t single images that make a story. Instead, it is the skill to craft a narrative that ultimately determines effective photography. It is these two elements, the ability to photograph and then build a story with it, that I seek to learn from Jason Edwards. This fellowship isn’t merely an opportunity for personal learning, but a critical exercise in my journey to tell the story of India’s dying forests to the world. https://journals.worldnomads.com/rohanchakravarty/photos/42003/India/Kanha-The-bleeding-heart-of-India Travel India rohanchakravarty https://journals.worldnomads.com/rohanchakravarty/photos/42003/India/Kanha-The-bleeding-heart-of-India#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/rohanchakravarty/photos/42003/India/Kanha-The-bleeding-heart-of-India Fri, 28 Jun 2013 04:02:00 GMT 0