Life Itself
"And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself ?” (From "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera) This picture was shot at Scindia ghat in Varanasi (Benaras)...
View ArticleIn or Out
"One thing that struck me very early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in." (Diane Arbus - American photographer and...
View ArticleThe Fugitive Moment
"Composition must be one of our constant preoccupations, but at the moment of shooting it can stem only from our intuition, for we are out to capture the fugitive moment, and all the interrelationships...
View ArticleAn Escape Route
"I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea" (David LaChapelle - American...
View ArticleAn Invincible Summer
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." (Albert Camus - French Nobel Prize winning author, 1913-1960) This is a scan of one of my first pictures shot...
View ArticlePromising Beginning
“All the world's a stage.” (From "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare) Jonathan is holding a "Heart" with a Zardozi embroidery from the RED HALO collection. He wants to perform on theatre stage on...
View ArticleIntroducing Jonathan
“We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.” (Criss Jami - lead singer of the rock band...
View ArticleWhat Comes Out
"One thing that struck me very early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in." (Diane Arbus - American photographer and...
View ArticleThe Unexpected
"I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before." (Robert Mapplethorpe - American photographer, 1946–1989) Jonathan is a French wannabe actor who wants to perform on...
View ArticleBehind The Visible Image
"You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium - so that to photograph becomes a magical act, and...
View ArticleElevation
“I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one breathe aspiration.” (Petra Remes) In Varanasi (Benaras) there is a...
View ArticleInfinity
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.” (From "The...
View ArticleA Dream Of Evanescence
"The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it....
View ArticleThe Humanity Of The Moment
"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. Most of my photographs are of people; they are seen...
View ArticleClaustrophobic: The Fear of Santa Claus
"HO HO HO...There is no reason to be claustrophobic...Don't be afraid of Santa Claus...HO HO HO" I saw Santa as he crossed the window of Fortnum & Mason in London and I had the time to click this...
View ArticleChristmas To A Child
“There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.” (From “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression” by Erma Bombeck) The windows of Fortnum & Mason in...
View ArticleThe Desilusions Of Childhood
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller,...
View ArticleHappy 2014
*** Have a beautiful 2014 *** May this year be filled with Love, Peace & Happiness. Keep on believing in your dreams... Thank you for the sustained support you give to my work...You are amazing......
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