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Gautam Narang, London / UK
What
is photography? What is art? What is the point of it?
It's everything around us, and it's yourself, there
is no point, it's putting your thoughts on paper, in
an instant, expressing more than words can, so many
things. Photography and art isn’t limited to the
medium, it's more than that, I believe the real art
is the artist and the world, this is what inspires us.
What catches one person’s eye, but another walks
past?
With photography I have learnt the value of detail,
it has taught me to look for details, to look for things,
this is more than clicking a button. The camera simply
allows the user to catch the image, it is the artist
who sees it. The way I think is life is full of speeded
up days, what the camera does is crop this so you can
focus on what you want. It takes a moment, and stretches
it to infinity, and gives us the calm of observing that
moment properly, and life is like this to me, full of
clutter, and very special moments.
In India, I saw uncensored reality, real poverty, real
madness, not the sanitised cleaned up, behind closed
doors society of Britain. But why are these themes so
interesting to me? Because they are more real, everyone
identifies with the underdog, not many can identify
with the entrenched falsity of the ruling classes. This
is where photography is different, it is designed to
raise questions rather than answers, but the result
is that artists will remain unfulfilled, because in
their quest for answers, they simply raise more questions.
Don’t take anything on face value, everything
can be doctored even these words, read them once, forget
them, and go make your own art.
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