UPAYAN CHATTERJEE

Independent Documentary Photographer
   
Graveyard of Trees
Projects (3)
Public Project
Graveyard of Trees
Copyright UPAYAN CHATTERJEE 2024
Date of Work May 2020 - Jul 2020
Updated Jul 2020
Location Kolkata, India
Topics Beauty, Climate Change, Conservation, Cyclone, Documentary, Documentary Photography, Editorial, Environment, Essays, Exclusive, Natural Calamity, Photography, Photojournalism, Restoration, Spotlight, Trees
A severe cyclonic storm, Amphan hit West Bengal on May 20, 2020 and led to state-wide devastation at a catastrophic scale. The coastal areas are devastated and shall perhaps take years to recover, while major problems like week-long suspension of water supply, electricity had become commonplace over the next few days. A lot has been said and major world, local media have already developed/ in the process of developing detailed narratives about this massive natural event.
However, as a fledgling photographer, I decided to develop my own directed visual story to follow and narrate the widespread devastation of trees and efforts at restoring them.
The visual story is the photographic representation of my own personal feelings regarding what I saw and how I felt on witnessing the fallen trees in my own locality and within my University Campus, the despair that came with the death of the trees that I had known for long, together with the humble hopes that formed from following the relentless hard-work of certain organisations towards trying to restoring trees,which still had life in them.
The photo journal has been published by The New Journalist Magazine.
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