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My Silver Gelatin Sepia toned print of "Baddi Amma" Old Grandmother, got selected in the the 35th Annual "Commitment to Excellence" juried Art Exhibition Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce for exhibition between Aug 13-22. I entered in this prestigious show for the first time, all are invited to the show. Its the same print that was in student show at Windward Community College, Kaneohe last year and had the best comment from Michele Van Hessen, House of Representatives Minority Caucus - Media Director, visited the exhibit and told my teacher and gallery manager that she thought my photo of the old woman was the best in the exhibit of total 167 art works.

This photograph was taken with manual camera Promaster 2500 and developed in the darkroom on an 8 x 10" Ilford pearl paper as well as on 11 x 14" Fiber paper. The prints were also toned sepia to protect them further. This picture is part of my series "Faces and Places in India" that were taken during my travels and visits...

I was born in small town in India, at the border of a northwestern desert state of Rajasthan. At an early age, the vibrant colors and sweet melodies of nature and nomadic gypsies, called Banjaras, influencing my inner as well as outer world. My Banjara existence yearned for stability, at least in my inner being as I found it nonexistent in the outer world for obvious reasons of inherent uncertainty, being the very nature of our physical material world. My art was born out of the need to create symmetry out of asymmetry, harmony out of disharmony and order out of chaos in the explosively violent world where life itself has become an industrial commodity to satisfy the lust of the consumer, capitalistic world overpowered by the greed,...