Shashwat Parhi
Photographer / Based in Pondicherry, India
I always wanted to tell stories. As a child I drooled over comics and dreamed of becoming a cartoonist. But my drawing skills never really went beyond the basic doodles and scribbles. I never really took my essay writing classes...
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I always wanted to tell stories. As a child I drooled over comics and dreamed of becoming a cartoonist. But my drawing skills never really went beyond the basic doodles and scribbles. I never really took my essay writing classes too seriously either. Now I write stuff that most humans don't care to read, or will ever get an opportunity to see. I make apps for mobile devices.
I got my first camera after completing college, a used, and quite beat-up Olympus OM1. But that really changed the way I wanted to tell my stories, moving forward. Somehow it felt more natural seeing the world through a narrow opening, than taking in everything all at once.
Of late I have been shooting more moving pictures and I love how it lets me explore continuity at so many levels. But I am still searching for my inner voice. In the end, I realise the medium is only as effective as the message that you want to convey.
I got my first camera after completing college, a used, and quite beat-up Olympus OM1. But that really changed the way I wanted to tell my stories, moving forward. Somehow it felt more natural seeing the world through a narrow opening, than taking in everything all at once.
Of late I have been shooting more moving pictures and I love how it lets me explore continuity at so many levels. But I am still searching for my inner voice. In the end, I realise the medium is only as effective as the message that you want to convey.