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: Have you ever felt trapped inside a lift or a room in spite of knowing that the doors would open up after a while? Claustrophobia is a fear that has been bothering me since childhood. A sensation of fear that engulfs me in those apparently compressed spaces, making me feel like little lizard trapped in between those windowpanes on a dark monsoon day struggling to get out in the open.

The feeling of being trapped can be identified as one of the most frightful sentiment. One doesn't need to be behind locked doors to feel the same. The vastness of surroundings can sometimes be enough to makes one crumble.

This particular Split-screen is the depiction of the identical uneasy feeling. The hilly areas on the Western Ghats of India being representative of vastness and a character within the old walls of a Calcutta heritage structure portraying the desperation of breaking through the feeling of being trapped.

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.