Art Edition: Day 2 – Biswaroop Podder
Biswaroop Podder is a Kolkata based photographer, videographer and a student pursuing his B.Tech. Over the past few years, his passion for photography and eye for detail have only become more refined. His photographs are predominantly of the Kolkata streets and lifestyle genre. The gear used in the pictures that follow is the Canon 760D. His frames capture action in a way which distills a moment – moments that are rife with indecision, possibility and all the accompanying emotions which sight encompasses.
While the DSLR that he laid his hands on was bought for the purpose of taking pictures at a cultural program, it soon became a source of release as well as relish for Biswaroop as he realized he was quite decent at taking pictures, and “pretty much sucked at anything else”. Photography became a solution to this frustration and helped his mind find some stability. He says he has no huge expectations from this venture, his photographs, and his videos. It makes him happy. He gets to meet new people, look them in the eye, and capture their moments. There is joy and satisfaction enough in that.
Biswaroop has been primarily invested in street photography, even though it poses quite a bit of challenges and difficulty. He would go about in the streets of Kolkata on weekends taking pictures. He hopes to return to the same streets after the lockdown, in search of new strangers and new moments.





You can take a look at more of Biswaroop’s work on his Instagram page. Along with photography, Biswaroop has also tried his hand at videography, a glimpse of which we present below. May this remind you of the streets we so miss:
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