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Artist: Sammya Brata
Medium: Photography
Edition: 1/1
Collection: Known Unknown
Image specifications- 6016 × 4016
Shot in the year - 2022
About the piece: In life, no matter where we go and what we do, the moments we live will never etch in our memories if our pillars of strength are not beside us to experience them with us.
We all mask ourselves on the daily to go on with our lives. Humans are the best shape-shifters. The struggle to fit in reflects on us as pains that are hard to explain in words. But when certain people in our lives come and stand beside us, it all suddenly seems easy. It's easier to breathe out our worries. These are the people who have our backs. They understand our pain of leading a masked life because they also do the same. In the land of equals, we find our pillars of strength- we fight for them, we let them be our foundation and be theirs as well.
This image, captured in Kushmandi district of North Dinajpur in West Bengal, shows a local tribe of Gomira folk dancers with their traditional masks and attires on, for offering prayers to their local power deities and in respect for their roots in cultural heritage. The true highlight of this form of dance is the beautiful masks that are etched out of neem wood and the three dimensional crowns that ornaments the head. It is performed with a particularly distinctive rhythm and dance happens with two performers, always personifying a man and his maternal grandfather, discussing a topic to raise social awareness. Something that is unique about a Gomira Mask is that the eyes don't have holes. The dancers have to look through the small outlet near the mouth which restricts movements along one line; thus making the dance moves as challenging.
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- 6016 × 4016
Shot in the year - 2022
About the piece: In life, no matter where we go and what we do, the moments we live will never etch in our memories if our pillars of strength are not beside us to experience them with us.
We all mask ourselves on the daily to go on with our lives. Humans are the best shape-shifters. The struggle to fit in reflects on us as pains that are hard to explain in words. But when certain people in our lives come and stand beside us, it all suddenly seems easy. It's easier to breathe out our worries. These are the people who have our backs. They understand our pain of leading a masked life because they also do the same. In the land of equals, we find our pillars of strength- we fight for them, we let them be our foundation and be theirs as well.
This image, captured in Kushmandi district of North Dinajpur in West Bengal, shows a local tribe of Gomira folk dancers with their traditional masks and attires on, for offering prayers to their local power deities and in respect for their roots in cultural heritage. The true highlight of this form of dance is the beautiful masks that are etched out of neem wood and the three dimensional crowns that ornaments the head. It is performed with a particularly distinctive rhythm and dance happens with two performers, always personifying a man and his maternal grandfather, discussing a topic to raise social awareness. Something that is unique about a Gomira Mask is that the eyes don't have holes. The dancers have to look through the small outlet near the mouth which restricts movements along one line; thus making the dance moves as challenging.
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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