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My Journey – from Prostate to Portrait
October 25, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm UTC+5.5
YPS Meet Live | October 25, Sun | 5:30 PM | YPS Facebook page
As the tagline denotes, Profession and Passion can be comrades.
Being a medical practitioner needs dedication, perfection, patience, compassion and a drive for continual learning. These qualities when combined with a passion for photography is a perfect combination to excel in all genres of photography. Dr Barun K Sinha, a medical practitioner by profession is also a passionate photographer. Among the fraternity of photographers he is well known for his excellent photography and as the dedicated Hon. Secretary-General of FIP.
Here are a couple of ‘Quotable Quotes’ from Dr Barun K Sinha –
“It is a wrong notion that practice makes you perfect. It is the perfect practice which makes you perfect. So practice your craft in the correct way.”
“I am never satisfied with my work. I am yet to shoot an image which is equal to 1000 words. Satisfaction is death.”
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About the Speaker
Dr. Barun K Sinha MFIAP, ESFIAP, Hon. FIP, ARPS, Hon. FSoF, Hon. FICS, Hon. PESGSPC, Hon. PAD
The tagline “ from Prostate to Portrait “ has its origin in the fact that when Dr Barun Sinha first set up his studio at home in 2003-04, his first model was an old man on whom he had operated upon for prostate. Since his home and hospital are across the road, he invited the patient to his home on the day of discharge and made the portrait. Over the years he has done it on several occasions. His elder son who was in the UK at that time mooted the idea of having a sign-post on the road saying ‘Prostate to the left and Portrait to the right!’
Dr Sinha started photography way back in 1970 when a visiting Japanese photographer sold his 2 well used Minolta SLR bodies, a 58 mm and 200 mm tele lens for Rs 1000/- only. At that time he was a 2nd year medico. In 1969 he had been to Hazaribagh Wildlife Sanctuary with 5 friends during the Puja holidays. All rooms and dormitories were occupied. They had no choice other than to return when suddenly they came across a watch tower ( Tower # 3 ) and decided to make it their night shelter. The geosmin of the jungle was simply captivating and this was the love at first sight for him. No photography was involved at that time. Just pure and infinite love for the jungle and nature. Just a year later the Japanese came as a messenger of God and then Dr Sinha had a purpose to visit jungles: Photography.
His photography evolved rather slowly, mostly because of pressure of studies as a medico. Slowly and steadily he was learning the craft, mostly from fellow photographers and watching different portfolios circulated by FIP and the local club Photographic Association of Bihar (PhAB) of which he was the founder secretary in 1975. He was also a member of FIP from day one. His first Salon acceptance was on a TP shot in a rice field near Patna in 1977. Some who helped were Sri TNA Perumal and Sri RS Chopra who were extremely knowledgeable and ever so willing to share their vast knowledge. Among the contemporary photographers he admires and often works together with Dr Pramod Shanbag of Bangalore.
His favourite lens is 400 mm 2.8 on D5. His all time favourite is Natural history Photography but he is equally at ease doing street, portrait both indoors as well as outdoors, landscape and travel.
Dr Sinha says “The current lot of young photographers are highly talented, perhaps more than the previous generation. They do not shy away from experimenting. Nature photography is progressing in leaps and bounds in India. This generation is learning photo editing extremely well.”
He says, “Share your knowledge and provide a learning platform for the beginners. I prescribe that you meet as often as possible, go out for photo shoots regularly and participate in as many salons as possible. This is how I have learnt my photography. And be humble at your success. Some people start boasting about their achievements and that leads to downfall.”
-YPS Executive Committee