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Artist: Sammya Brata
Medium: Photography
Edition: 1/1
Collection: Known Unknown
Image specifications- 2542 × 3852
Shot in the year - 2019
About the piece: "Masks reveal in the eyes the face that lies hidden as if the mask is a dark glass mirroring your soul.". Eyes are the windows to the soul. A common belief is that even if sometimes an individual is having a certain demeanour on the surface, their eyes reveal what lies within. And surprisingly, there's a disparity in both.
Riots of colours and chaos of patterns in this image are trying their best to distract our glances but the eyes of the protagonist pierce through the 2-dimensional image and stare right into the viewer's soul. Amidst unknown glares, a known voice reaches out through the eyes. Is it a cry for help? Or is it an announcement of domination?
The mask gives him the courage to face the devils upfront. It enables him to look into their eyes and challenge them with valour and glory. It adds a glow on his face letting it shine like a diamond in the dark. The portrait captures the confidence that resides in the eyes of an 18-year old guy who gets his face painted before the rituals begin. He embraces his new face like a gift from god and carries it like an iron sword. This image, captured in Katwa district of Purba-Bardhaman in West Bengal, shows a local man with his face painted for the religious & folk festival, Gajan which takes place in the months of April-May, in all parts of the state in India.
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.
"7 billion people, 14 billion faces" - is a common saying portraying the thought that every person wears a mask and there's a side of them that stays hidden to the world. While having many "faces" is frowned upon, I believe that we often wear masks as an act of sheathing ourselves from and in various situations.
With this collection, I would thus like to break the taboo that having multiple personalities can be “deceptive” to many; it is in-fact, a common adaptive behaviour amongst humans to stay relevant, fit in and to feel accepted in the society.
Through the rich, varied cultures and folk festivals of my motherland, Bengal, India, I present 12 evocative 1/1 photographs aimed at normalising us wearing “masks” to cope with the societal pressures.
These images showcase the rich cultural inheritance of Bengal and celebrate the “significant humans” hiding behind those masks.
Shot in the remote districts over the last 4-5 years, this is my most personal and emotional body of work!
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Artist: Sammya Brata
Medium: Photography
Edition: 1/1
Collection: Known Unknown
Image specifications- 2542 × 3852
Shot in the year - 2019
About the piece: "Masks reveal in the eyes the face that lies hidden as if the mask is a dark glass mirroring your soul.". Eyes are the windows to the soul. A common belief is that even if sometimes an individual is having a certain demeanour on the surface, their eyes reveal what lies within. And surprisingly, there's a disparity in both.
Riots of colours and chaos of patterns in this image are trying their best to distract our glances but the eyes of the protagonist pierce through the 2-dimensional image and stare right into the viewer's soul. Amidst unknown glares, a known voice reaches out through the eyes. Is it a cry for help? Or is it an announcement of domination?
The mask gives him the courage to face the devils upfront. It enables him to look into their eyes and challenge them with valour and glory. It adds a glow on his face letting it shine like a diamond in the dark. The portrait captures the confidence that resides in the eyes of an 18-year old guy who gets his face painted before the rituals begin. He embraces his new face like a gift from god and carries it like an iron sword. This image, captured in Katwa district of Purba-Bardhaman in West Bengal, shows a local man with his face painted for the religious & folk festival, Gajan which takes place in the months of April-May, in all parts of the state in India.
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.
"7 billion people, 14 billion faces" - is a common saying portraying the thought that every person wears a mask and there's a side of them that stays hidden to the world. While having many "faces" is frowned upon, I believe that we often wear masks as an act of sheathing ourselves from and in various situations.
With this collection, I would thus like to break the taboo that having multiple personalities can be “deceptive” to many; it is in-fact, a common adaptive behaviour amongst humans to stay relevant, fit in and to feel accepted in the society.
Through the rich, varied cultures and folk festivals of my motherland, Bengal, India, I present 12 evocative 1/1 photographs aimed at normalising us wearing “masks” to cope with the societal pressures.
These images showcase the rich cultural inheritance of Bengal and celebrate the “significant humans” hiding behind those masks.
Shot in the remote districts over the last 4-5 years, this is my most personal and emotional body of work!
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