PANA PHUA

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

India | Saturday, June 29, 2013 | 5 photos

Coming from a rural middle class Indian family, I am not supposed to remain unemployed by the age of 25, and I am here to turn 30 this year. Moreover, being a poet is totally unacceptable if you are addicted of thinking always beyond money. And I must say I am a person who draws all his good intentions from places like hell…..call it brothels, morgues, prisons, slums – or everything that claims this world is not worth living.

Nothing is repetitive in this universe in terms of time. Now, I see photography as something that challenges this power of time. I see it as a bridge between the past and the future. I find myself not much interested in places of tourist interests, but deeply mad to see a place that exist in another world. The first place I would like to go with my photography is my childhood.

I like the uncertainty of life, as it gives me the immense hope. As far as the matter of “why I should be chosen” is concerned, I just have to say that this is a question worthy of consideration only after 26th of July 2013. Till then, I have to think how to turn those 10 days into 10 years….and I am sure, being with Jason it’s not going to be impossible!