20-year-old Pubarun Basu bagged ‘Sony World Photography Awards 2021’ for his image titled- ‘No Escape from Reality’.
As a toddler, Kolkata boy Pubarun Basu performed together with his father’s digital camera, and regularly the curiosity in images grew up by nature, wildlife, newbie images. As a photographer, Pubarun cherished to click on pure pictures, however the image which received him the international fame, was ‘created’ and never a pure click on.
The picture- ‘No Escape from Reality’ bagged Sony World Photography Awards 2021
The 20-year-old received Sony World Photography Awards on April 15 for his image, titled ‘No Escape from Reality’. The image is a narrative of confinement informed by his lens throughout lockdown. “When I was in home during lockdown, the images images of shadow and various reflections of sunlight created through the curtains in our windows attracted me. One day in July, I asked my mother to raise her hands behind the curtain in a sense that she was trapped.”
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Narrating the technical particulars of the shot, he stated, “I clicked the photo with a Nikon 16-35mm f/4 ED VR lens attached to Nikon D800E. The shutter speed was kept at 1/40sec with f/4 aperture and ISO 400. The focal length at that time was 32mm.”
Why ‘No Escape from Reality’? According to him, the image potrays the current time, when “human being is entrapped himself in fear of an invisible enemy. We are behind masks, could not express ourselves freely, the picture shows the condition of human being in a confined world.” The tile got here into his thoughts from Bohemian Rhapsody’s track titled ‘Queen’- having lyrics, “Is this the real life?/ Is this just fantasy?/ Caught in a landslide/ No escape from reality.”
The Tree of Traditions- Published in BBC in 2018
This yr, the theme of the ‘Sony World Photography Awards 2021’ was composition and design. This is the 14th yr of the competitors, and Purban is the primary Indian to have received this title.
Pubarun first received international fame on the age of 16, when his {photograph} received featured in Editor’s Favourite archive in National Geographic Your Shot, his image was additionally revealed in BBC in 2018. Two of his footage had been exhibited on the Kolkata International Photography Festival in 2019.
The Game of Colours- Published in National Geographic Your Shot in 2018
He attributed his success to his mother and father, saying, “Being a professional photographer, my father Pranab Basu is my soul inspiration to be into this profession, my mother Enakshi Basu always supported me in my career path.”
The Interface of Two Realms- Published in National Geographic Your Shot in 2018
The second-year scholar of English Literature at The Bhawanipur Education Society College, Pubarun has additionally ardour in enjoying tabla, and desires to decide on the place he can use each of his skills- ‘tabla’ and ‘images’. After finishing commencement, he’s considering of to maneuver into ‘film manufacturing’, however based on him, “it’s difficult to think of your career in this pandemic time. Let we live first, then career.”
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