Artist: Sammya Brata

Medium: Photography

Edition: 1/1

Collection: Split Stories

Diptych specifications- 1920x2400 Individual images available in their original resolution. Both shots composed in the year - 2020

About the piece:

Devi Durga is known as the symbol of power and "good over evil" in the Hindu religion. Durga Puja is observed widely all over India, especially in West Bengal around the months of September-October marking 10 calendar days of grand celebration. These two images shot in the capital of West Bengal, Kolkata shows the structure of an old Heritage house (upper half) and the unfinished clay idol of Goddess Durga under a canopy of an idol maker's workstation (lower half). This particular split-screen is representative of the belief that there's a Durga in every household- hidden inside every-one of us. The faith of winning over evils of the society every-day and fighting our inner demons depict having the power of Durga amongst us, irrespective of caste, creed, religion, and gender. The strength of flying high and above from everything that breaks us, unites us under one roof.

Hence these two photographs from the depth of Calcutta stitched in a seamless collage is a true depiction of the ingrained emotion of a Calcuttan associated with the biggest festival of the State.

About the collection: When people ask me about my fairly popular work on split-screen images, I very candidly tell them that to begin with, they are extremely difficult to visualise - the execution part comes much later. And more often than not, it is quite a daunting task to combine 2 or more frames together as one coherent story since most them are not remotely connected to each other, both in terms of theme as well as composition. Well, this interesting concept is basically a sub-set of the tested mechanism of DIPTYCH art (pronounced as "dip-tick," which has a Greek origin in "dis," meaning two, and "ptykhe," meaning fold) which combines in two pieces of artwork in a single frame or are presented together without technically modifying the artworks in any form or shape. This collection of PHOTOGRAPHY DIPTYCHS called “Split Stories” comprises of 10 such seamless yet evocative 1/1 collage-compositions created with some of my strongest photographs shot around the world aimed at conveying a deeper message. The collectors essentially get 2 photographs with the value of ONE.

About the artist- Sammya Brata is an award-winning street and documentary photographer, who has won the Canon Photo Marathon India in 2019 and has been an established educator, curator, mentor and a two-time TEDx speaker.

License: Primary NFT holder is free to use in advertising, display privately and in groups, including virtual galleries, documentaries, and essays by holder of the NFT, as long as creator is credited. Provides no rights to create commercial merchandise, commercial distribution, or derivative works. Copyright remains with creator.