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:

Looking up and moving forward this the only way to survive when the water is pulling you down to drown your hopes. We cannot deny that we haven't come across a moment where we had to reconsider our decisions to move ahead. The more we've thought about the adjunction points, the heavier we've felt from reconsideration.

These images clicked in Kolkata, India (upper half) during the festival of lights - Diwali and in Mumbai, India (lower half) during another iconic Ganesh Chaturthi festival – depicts the fact that sometimes it's best to move ahead and count your blessings instead of being burdened by what's in the past.

This Split is also an extension of a dream I saw last night. I was standing in the middle of a sea on a full moon-night with my feet drenched in water. Like a kid I held up a lantern and let it float into a sky filled with stars, the innocence and wishful thinking in this entire scene also inspired me to create this artwork.

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.