Chiiz Volume 23 Pushkar Photography | Page 28

Bengal tiger, Kanha National Park Nikon D850 50mm F/5.6 1/500 ISO800 of depth rather than just scratching the surface. For my work in North Korea, which I recently showed at the Indian Photography Festival in Hyderabad and then my work in North Korea, Iran and Iraq at the Pause International Photo Exhibition during the Watertown Fest in Kochi are good examples. I’m attempting to go beyond the headlines and explore why these countries are at odds with so many of the other countries that share the planet. I focus on daily live and hopefully am doing so without passing judgment. I’m researching the question, “How did we get into this situation?” The answers are seldom as simple as good and evil; simplistic labels often result in human conflict. What advice would you give to the aspiring photographers who want to follow in your footsteps? Never think that you can just put together a great portfolio and wait for the phone to ring with an assignment. Go out and find interesting stories and pursue them to as deep a level as you can and them pitch them around to publications and galleries as well as entering contests. Also, know your photography tools as well as you would expect a surgeon to know his or hers. If you want to be a professional, then be professional. Prateek Kashyap Polar Bear, Kaktovik Nikon D810 300mm F/4.5 1/1000 ISO100 [email protected] An adventure seeker by heart, his passion for photography was ignited in the Great Himalayas. Clicking clear frames and solving the mysteriesof life, he just wants to spend his time as a confused photographer.