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:

“And yet for these children, these windows, not this map, are the world” - Remember these lines by Stephen Spender? The civilised world is the world of the rich. They draw their own maps. The slums and the holes find no place in them. It’s through these windows that these kids in the slum gaze at the outside world.

They see people breathing fresh air, drinking clean water and experience the meaning of “freedom” through them. A split screen where the two images when looked at separately, tells a story. But those tales might differ from the heavier perspective of both images combined. Sometimes, even if we are exuberant on the outside, we can feel our hidden angst peeping through on the inside. The anxious feeling often takes over the excitement and one feels it all in their nerves.

This is why this DIPTYCH has been named as the TAKE OFF since it talks about our inner zeal to break all the barriers and catch the flight of ambition and those unfulfilled desires!

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 visualize - 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.