User:Anil T Prabhakar



Anil T Prabhakar also know as Anil Prabhakar, starting his photographic sojourn as a photojournalist, he moved to other genres of the artform soon with elan. A firm believer that it is the person behind the camera who creates the images, he attributes both success and failure to the doer rather than to his tool. A self taught photographer, Anil landed a job in the Indonesian Mining Industry and continued to do serious photography. His job which required him to travel extensively allowed him to visit far reaches of the Indonesian Archipelago and other South East Asian countries. One is not sure, but it could have been the vastness of the Indonesian landscape that might have spurred him to shoot landscapes extensively in his early years.

His attempts at painting using oil paints, acrylic and pencil right from his school days were very fruitful and numerous awards and mentions were won by his works. The rigorous practice inculcated in him a strong aesthetic sense of composition which would strongly manifest itself in his later landscape photographs. Working exclusively in the digital format, his skill in photography and the post processing that his files would require were completely self taught from the lessons he could garner from the internet and other photography journals. One thing that had Anil going was a relentless desire to capture the essence of the life around him and the emotions that he saw in the people of the countries he visited. The urge to go beyond the act of merely recording with his camera made him develop a signature manner of shooting which would capture the soul of the region and its people. The camera, for him is not a device to record, but a tool which he puts to judicious use and creates works of art.

Recently one of his work, got viral across the world, the photo posted on Instagram and facebook, hugely applauded by viewers. More than 90,000 like and several leading groups shared this image, later on media took over this image and published widely on prints and tabloids. Leading media giant like BBC and CNN covered this news in their shows. if other country channels interviewed to know the behind the story of this photo. Anil Posted this photo of Orangutan lending helping hand towards wildlife guard, with a caption "  Let me help you? : Once Humanity is dying in Mankind, sometime animals are guiding us back to our basics".

It would not seem a wonder that Anil lapsed into visual art when we get to know the town from which he hails. Ponnani, a small town in the Malabar region of Kerala had already given the world three of India’s most original and versatile painters.

K.C.S.Panikkar, T.K.Padmini and that great illustrator K.M.Vasudevan Namboodiri.

Inherently beautiful, Ponnani might have instilled in Anil his fascination with landscapes. He hopes to work on a photobook on his home town after returning to India after his official duties have been fully discharged. His work has been published in numerous magazines and journals. One of them, about the fascination that Mount Bromo unfailingly seems to afford him was very well received. http://reminiscenceframes.com/