A Celebration of Light in Black and White – Photographs by Sankardeep Chakraborty | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture
Walking up to 20 kilometers on his roaming photo sessions, Sankardeep Chakraborty renders the streets of his adopted home of Japan otherworldly, celebrating light in his high-contrast black and white images
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/sankardeep-chakraborty-a-celebration-of-light-in-black-and-whiteLight is a strong force in the world of Indian photographer Sankardeep Chakraborty’s black and white photographs. Shafts of sunlight breaking through dark skies, street lamps refracted and intensified through the rain, the moon as it casts its ethereal glow: all of them become material for the artist to transform ordinary moments into scenes of otherworldly awe.