Theme—What is a selfie?
DYUTIMAN MUKHOPADHYAY PHOTOGRAPHY
What is a selfie?—What does it reflect?—How to take it?
—practise thinking
—what-is-there
—nature-of-things
—truth—Illusion—delusion
—obsession—possession
—burn-in-hell
—love
—let-go
—resolve
—faith—fate
—me.
Theme—What is a selfie?
January 14, 2020; London, Upton Park; Camera—Samsung M30s.
May be . . . May be not
‘I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.’
—Alfred Eisenstaedt (German-born American photographer and photojournalist, 1898-1995).
Theme—What is a selfie?
June 18, 2018; London, Baker Street, inside a poshed-up Fish & Chips restaurant; Camera—Canon EOS 60D DSLR.
Why do we need to wear a mask?
To pretend what we actually are?
To keep our eyes wide shut?
—dyutiman mukhopadhyay
Title from ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ (1999)—Stanley Kubrick’s final film.
—In front of a Viennese shop selling Venetian Opera masks.
Theme—What is a selfie?
—September 2, 2016; Vienna, Austria; Camera—Samsung Galaxy Grand 2.
Inspired by―’The Silence of the Lambs’ (1991, directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally). Only the third film to win Academy Awards in all the top five categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay, the film is also the only recognised horror film to date to win the Best Picture winner. Incidentally, the iconic Anthony Hopkins, playing a high-powered psychiatrist and incarcerated, cannibalistic serial killer, won the Oscar for the best actor in a little over 16 minutes of screen time.
Theme—What is a selfie?
November 8, 2020; Calcutta, India; Camera—Samsung M30s.
untitled
The inside of a flower in sunlight.
THEME—WHAT IS A SELFIE?
March 21, 2022,
West Bengal, India;
Camera—Adcom 12/24X Macro attachment lens with Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro.
My Bed is Covered Yellow—by Peter Orlovsky
‘My bed is covered yellow—
Oh Sun, I sit on you
Oh golden field I lay on you
Oh money I dream of you
More, More, cried the bed—talk to me more—
Oh bed that taked the weight of the world—
All the lost dreams laid on you...’
—1957, Paris (excerpt).
—American poet and actor Peter Anton Orlovsky (July 8, 1933 - May 30, 2010) was Allen Ginsberg's longtime partner.
THEME—WHAT IS A SELFIE?
Picture taken on June 4, 2022—Bangalore, India.
Artistic rendering done on July 5, 2023—Kolkata, India.
Camera—Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro.
the SHY white peacock
The white Indian Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) has a rare genetic mutation called leucism. Leucistic peafowls (unlike albinos) can produce pigment but do not show it on their feathers. Thus there is a complete lack of colouration in their plumage. They do retain a blue-gray shade in their eyes.
THEME—WHAT IS A SELFIE?
Picture taken on 2nd October 2022, Calcutta Zoo, India.
Camera: Canon 60D
with sugar
THEME—WHAT IS A SELFIE?
Pictures taken on March 31, 2023—Bangalore, India.
Artistic rendering done on April 1, 2023—Bangalore, India.
Camera—Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro.
madness as method
‘Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.’
― Sylvia Plath, from: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.
Whiteboard scribbles for BDes. final year Information Arts & Information Design students. Project: ‘Madness as Method’ (2023), Srishti Manipal Institute, Bangalore, India.
THEME—WHAT IS A SELFIE?
Picture taken on September 25, 2023—Bangalore, India.
Camera—Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro.