Turning ordinary into magical: Amateur photographer presents new look at life in India – The Washington Post

Perspective | Turning ordinary into magical: Amateur photographer presents new look at life in India

An unrelenting sense of curiosity is what drives Swarat Ghosh’s artwork.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/02/08/turning-ordinary-into-magical-amateur-photographer-presents-new-look-at-life-in-india/

More often than not, photography coming out of India tends to focus on the “exotic.” We’ve seen the pictures many times before — people performing religious rites in the Ganges River or huge gatherings like the Kumb Mela. So it is refreshing to see work that diverges from this path. Swarat Ghosh’s photographs of street scenes in India do just that