The Art of a Shutter

Source: Ariful Islam S'uhas

Over the years the young generation of our country has shown huge potential when it comes to photography. Exhibiting their frames all over the world, they have set the bar high for future generations. Pranabesh Das is one of them we can be proud of. By wining prestigious awards such as PSA best of show 18th Georgia in 2008, FC Oldenzaal bronze medal in International Photography Circuit in Holland back in 2012 and an honourable mention at GEF Photo Contest at Germany in 2009; Pranabesh has proven to be one of the most acclaimed photographers in Bangladesh.
Coming from a physics background, photography was always a hobby to Pranabesh. “After completing my Bachelors in physics, I started working at an IT firm. However I couldn’t bear the boredom of working there. The long hours with little to do was crushing me inside. That’s when photography saved me and the hobby became a profession,” says Pranabesh Das. Currently, he is doing his bachelors in photography at Pathshala South Asian Media Academy.

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Every photographer has a genre he or she prefers such as portraits, wild life, urban and rural scenery etc. In Pranabesh’s case it is documentary and street photography. “For me it is this is my view of the world and how it relates to me. And I like to do street photography because I get to capture the dynamics of everyday life which is fascinating,” says the photographer.
Pranabesh has exhibited his captures in countries such as Sri lanka, Croatia, India, China, Slovakia, USA and more. “There have been so many people I am inspired by and the list keeps on growing but from our country I would have to say I am hugely inspired by the works of Abir Abdullah, GMB Akash, Munem Wasif and M R Hassan,” says Pranabesh.  
By seeing so much passion and success in this field, many youngsters are considering photography as their occupation. To them Pranabesh says, “You should always have something to say in your photos and you must be brutally honest about it. Try not to just take pictures which show what something looks like. The way you put the elements of an image together is really important because it shows us something we’ve never seen before and will never see again.”