Niyati Bhat
I love
storytelling! When I was a kid, it was difficult for my mother to put me to
sleep without a narrating a captivating story. I grew up with stories, drawing
life lessons from staple texts like Panchtantra and Amar Chitra Katha. Over
time, storytelling seeped into everything I did and finally lead me to discover
my passion, photography.
Photographs
are memories. Photographs are stories. Photographs are life and the camera is
the medium that lets us freeze those moments. It wasn’t until I was 9 that I
got to handle the camera for the first time. Before that, it was always a
plastic camera with miniatures of celebrities popping into the viewfinder.
Once I took
my first photograph, no one could stop me until I used up the complete film
roll. Naturally, I was back to the plastic camera and was never allowed to
touch the film camera again. But it was in college that my passion for
photography ignited again. The happy hormones were back to remind me the utter
excitement of my childhood encounter with the camera.
After much
pestering, some good grades and a bank account that matured when I turned 18, I
finally got a DSLR camera. I delved into the world of photography with no
experience and no technical knowledge at all! But tons of help from my
professor I got to know my camera much better.
I now wanted
to capture the world through my camera. I wanted to travel everywhere and tell
stories of people and what better way than to put my stories into photographs!
I discovered the medium of photo-stories and made it my focus.
Photographs
speak for themselves. Whether it is a ‘good’ photograph or a ‘bad’ photograph,
each captures a moment that was important to the photographer. Your photographs
become the medium of your creativity and you learn to express yourself through
them.
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