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SOURAV DE

OBJECTIVE

To be an able human being. To reach out to people with my photographs, my work and abilities. To help preserve the heritage spots and our environment and enable people to survive in a better world. To grow as an individual by developing and enhancing my skills and abilities and doing the needful to build a better society by being an integral part of the same.

AS A CLICKER

I am a Photographer by my choice. Photography was a hobby, which later turned into my passion.

Images of life always intrigued me since childhood. There was always an urge within myself to echo the various voices of life. To me, photography seemed the only option to depict the many facades of life.

I am an Associate member of PGI (Photographers Guild of India)

Photo Exhibition

My first Photo Exhibition was held at Meridian International Center (www.meridian.org/ghf/) Washington DC, United States on April 2010. California-based Global Heritage Fund organized this exhibition.

It was an International photo exhibition of 77 chronicles preservation effort of endangered cultural heritage sites in developing countries. I was the only Photographer who represented India. (http://www.meridian.org/ghf/india.html) My first solo photo exhibition ‘Myriad Hues of Life,” was organized by SHE (Save Heritage and Environment ) in July 2010, held at Birla Academy of Arts & Culture, Kolkata.

The exhibited photos were testimonies of life, portraying myriad human expressions. They focused on people and places around us, capturing the fleeting moments which are universal in their appeal. To me, each photograph represents life and tells a tale of a time just gone by, yet so much a part of our present. In the first photography exhibition, SHE shared the myriad moments of life that I have captured through my lens through the passage of time.

Books : Life near the Sky, LADAKH published by Subhi Publications, Gurgaon

Life near the Sky is my first photography book release on Ladakh. I chose Ladakh as my subject for the first book release because the moment I stepped into this land I felt so close to heaven and felt the urgent desire to share the moments spent there with everyone. The book is also the first fund-raising step for SHE (Save Heritage and Environment). Every paisa earned by the author from the book will fund SHE.

My Another upcoming book is “Calcutta to Kolkata”

I am the Founder Secretary of SHE (Save Heritage and Environment) http://www.savehe.org

Organization Profile – Save Heritage and Environment (SHE) is a non-profit organization which aims at the conservation and promotion of heritage sites and precincts as well as environment.

Vision behind SHE – Each time I see some old ruins, be it houses or heritage spots – something magnetic happens between me and the object. I often turn restless with every collapse of a heritage structure and set out with my camera to capture the fleeting moments, in a bid to preserve each place and raise awareness to protect them. Thus the birth of “SHE” happened.

AS A MAKER :

After a long dry spell of quality short films in Bengal, I, a city based film-maker, am all set to come up with a dozen of short-films, that too, aiming at a commercial release. The first of the dozen is ready for screening.

Despite being rooted in my Bengali culture, I strongly feel that these films have universal value ingrained in them. I plan to showcase these movies in various international and national film festivals. I feel that short-films as an amazing medium of communication and reaching out to the mass in general.

“1:30 am” Story Screenplay and Direction: Sourav De Casting : Ena Saha

“Mahulti” Story and Direction : Sourav De Music : Sudip Bandyopadhyay Casting : Tanushree Chakraborty, Shamik Chakraborty