I am connected with pictorial photography for thirty years and I have a definite bias to add human being as a subject in most of my pictures. Though I started off in Film as a medium for photography, I have gone fully Digital for Imaging . My Film gears are still there to come handy in case I feel like shooting on Film. Between 1980 and 1990 I was involved in Salon participation and had a moderate success in bagging a Silver Plaque, a couple of Certificates of Merit and Honourable Mentions in the Indian Photographic Salons. After 1990, I could do a bit of travel photography mainly due to time constraints. Higher resposibilities in the workplace compelled me to abstain from this hobby, I practically had no choice.
Again from 2005 June , I resumed photography . I am a Life Member of Photographic Association of Bengal (PAB) and I shoot mainly for my Web Gallery at Pbase.com. I have gone almost whole time into photography (taking up Portfolio and other subject specific assignments). I am also into teaching basic photography to young aspirant photographers these days.
My pictures are being used commercially for Advertisements and Calenders and I have obviously made commercial gains from it.
Picture piracy has become a serious threat to the photographers like us who have substantial presence in the Net. This is a matter of deep concern and I feel that the Web Hosts should consider ways and means to check the menace like Picture Piracy. Uploading pictures of smaller Pixel Size may be an alternative which would act as a deterrent to agencies who make unauthorised download of pictures and use them for commercial purpose. In the past one year I have won my battle against picture piracy on two occasions. These pictures were stolen and used by agencies in advertisements published in 'Ananda Bazar Patrika' and 'The Telegraph'.
