"Wherever I’m spread, I see eyes shine, passions increase, eyebrows rise and heartbeats quicken. Behold how wonderful it is to live! Behold how wonderful to see. I am everywhere. Life begins with and returns to me. Have faith in what I tell you.” : Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
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Amrita Ghosh
Writer| designer| photographer |owner
How damned is our thirst for immortality!
Our every action chronicles the indissoluble irony of trying to leave a mark with our existence so very tellingly. Even though we know neither we nor what we leave behind are permanent, but we instinctively raise our stakes in front of time to make a stronger case for memories.
We make memories, so that we are not forgotten.
'Not so easily', as our receding footsteps gnash on the moment, it's the words and photographs that provide us with a window to look back.
Darkroom || My Photostories is an earnest attempt to narrate those stories that pulsate through my photographs. Though most of the photographs here are plain ordinary, because it carries those 'first 10000 photographs which are', as the sage observation of Henri Cartier-Bresson goes, 'my worst', they are those building blocks which taught me that 'the eye should learn to listen before it looks'.
STILLS will showcase few gems too someday, I believe. But let's get it straight, this is not a website for showcasing my shutter skills with average gears. Instead, it's all about good-old storytelling, where both facts and imagination are free to delightfully coexist without compromise.
There's a significant amount of study and serious research work involved in the blog posts. I will cue in from widest possible range of sources along with my experience to keep the information authentic. If any occasional mistake sneaks in or you find any inaccurate information, it would be nice if you bring it to my attention.
My hope is to create a platform where all can learn and feel uniquely connected through the stories, and I believe you cannot read and leave my world without gaining a little more knowledge and developing curiosity about the world around you.
I narrate those stories through the articles/blogs published in the PHOTOSTORY section. However, I envision this space to shape in and hold much more than sharing my travel experiences. I will write about anything under the sun and beyond that touches and matters to me.
I customized the website for handheld devices, but for the complete viewing experience, bigger display and high-speed connection are desired.
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Hope you experience a riveting stopover and we can carry on this inspired journey together.
Many thanks!
about me
I started gardening couple of years ago to increase O2 level in the environment and decrease my restlessness. In no time, to onlookers' dismay, I killed one lotus bamboo (very hard plant with minimum maintenance need) and impaired a sturdy terrestrial orchid. But then, as I gallop to the present, I see now 20 rather delicate and demanding plants are thriving in my small garden. Despite me, perhaps!
Having said that, it doesn't surprise me. I usually don't quit if I set my mind on something and enjoy to learn about it to the best of my ability. It takes time for me to get there, but I do arrive on most occasions.
I am extremely passionate and thorough once I consume myself in the process of building what captivates me. That's why even Darkroom took long to develop. Even though I actively worked on it during last couple of months in 2019, the seeds were around for quite sometime. I learnt many things outside of my comfort zone while creating it end-to-end on my own.
The flowers of Joshua tree, found only in Mojave Desert, blossom just on one night every year and can only be pollinated by female pronuba moth (Yucca moth). No other animal visiting the blooms transfers the pollen from one flower to another. But waiting is a verb. It's not stagnation. Nature taught me to experience such true moments of stasis before the rupture.
So even when I was doing nothing with my creative pursuits and skills for so many years, somewhere in a quiet recess of my heart, I was sculpting and thawing the stories that I want to tell, with the real mojo of silence, and of course, through few scattered and half-baked scribbling attempts. But I realized that at some point I have to wake up from my dream if I want to live it.
I believe it's imperative to be directionless in life to find our true north. And even though I've taken serious measures to create this content platform, I will allow this space to organically shape, unfold and take me on that curious ride.
As the owner/creative head/writer/photographer while I do have cogent visions in place, Darkroom is free to take life of its own.
A keen observer with diverse range of interest and a natural sense of wonderment about the world around, which hopefully will reflect in my photostories, I'm into technical writing by profession.
- Ghosh
