Fort Kochi’s sea-face is more known for its Chinese Fishing Nets. But there is plenty of activity that goes on regularly around these nets. On the beach next to it, you usually sea fishermen throwing nets, standing on the shore. And near the the ferry station next to nets, motor-boats arrive with their catch of king-fish and squids that gets auctioned to a small gathering of buyers. The king-fish that this fisherman was holding was sold at Rs.800/kg.
At the Malaysia Tourism press conference, Ritz Carlton, Bangalore.
Snap Stories is a monthly column I write for a travel magazine. ‘Planned Portrait Shots in Working Environments’ was published in March 2014.
In the past couple of years, I have been slowly trying to photograph people often in a planned setup and keeping them aware of the fact that they are being photographed. The idea of this is to capture the subject in a controlled condition, often in an environment that they belong to. It could be the subject’s place of work, home, outdoors where they usually spend time, with their companions or in any other way in which the images speak a lot about the subject’s way of life. More often than not, it converges into their workplaces. And in a country like ours, workplaces are so diverse that you would never run out of possibilities.
