Garden of dreams
With my photography project, I am trying to document the couples experiencing the emotions of love and the places that become their sacred abodes.. Their joys, sorrows, pains, complaints, estrangements and reconciliations - it all shows from their facial expressions and body language. Love is not an animal instinct, but a sacred human instinct provided love is truly love. This is the story of a garden, the 'Garden of Dreams' of Kathmandu (Nepal), the beauty of which enriches the colorful emotions and Garden's pretty benches wait for the couples, where they become totally oblivious to rest of the world.
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Biography
I was born in a small village named Maddoke in the north-western Indian state of Punjab. After basic education from the village, I have done BFA from Chandigarh College of Art and made profession of photography, worked with many newspapers, and govt. Now working as an assistant professor at Lovely Professional University (Punjab )Indian, teaching photography/history of photography . To document various layers of life in India . I have participated in many national and international art exhibitions. Once awarded from the Indian academy of fine and twice won the State Fine Art Academy award.
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Awards
• 2014 Honorable mention International Photography Awards.
• 2014 Chandigarh Photographic Society Appreciation Award.
• 2014 Zindabad Trust grant for photography/video project.
• 2013 All India Fine Art and Craft society Award.
• 2012 National award winning film Punjabi feature film ‘NABAR’
work as a EDOP.
• 2012 Chandigarh lalit kala academy (State fine art academy)
award.
• 2012 Chandigarh lalit kala academy (State fine art academy)
fellowship.
• 2011/12 Ministry of culture fellowship outstanding person in
field.
• 2011 Award Indian academy of fine art Amritsar.
• 2011 Chandigarh lalit kala academy (State fine art academy)
award.
• 2007 First prize in Photography Exhibition ‘Chandigarh in
April’ Organized by Chandigarh Tourism.
• 2006 Award in Photo Contest organized by Punjab Lalit Kala
Academy (State fine art academy) on World Photography Day.
• 2004 First Prize in Guldasta Photography Exhibition organized
by PUDA, Mohali.
• 2004 Consolation Prize (professional category) in photography
competition, ‘Punjab and Haryana High Court Life and
Architecture ‘organized on its Golden Jubilee Celebrations.