Paul Shyamal
“If you want to be a photographer, first leave home.”
-Steve McCurry.
When I was a child I used to draw images with coal on the surface of a wall. After those days passed, I joined VB University where I studied fine arts receiving my bachelor of fine arts degree in 2008.
As a photographer I always try to remember the words of Steve McCurry, and the further advice of his friend Paul Theroux, “Go as far as you can. Become a stranger in a strange land.” For me, photography is not about documentation of any event or story, it’s more than that. It’s what we receive through the lens (third eye) and what our eyes actually perceive.
I started in photography not because of great cause, why I think most people start, but because for me it was just simply because I have a love for it which will last forever.