Anurag Jetly
"3000 kilometers on foot, 6000 kilometers in a small car that doubled up as a laboratory, climbing 2500 feet with 25 kilos on my back, snowstorms, rainstorms, sandstorms and I’ve returned irked for we haven’t yet been properly introduced. Sometimes, she was kind and gave me a cave to crouch into during the snowstorms. And sometimes, she smiled unknowingly in the middle of our fight. A panorama is that vulnerable moment that tells a story unto itself."
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Anurag Jetly has been a photographer for almost as long as he can remember. His obsession with the Himalayas started twelve years ago, when he first stumbled upon the untapped beauty of the mountains with a borrowed point-and-shoot camera, six rolls of film and hardly enough clothes to keep myself warm. Having worked with National Geographic Channel and on numerous other documentaries in the past, Anurag had the advantage of walking in on her best-kept secrets.
"I often think of that rare fulfilling joy when I am in the presence of some wonderful alignment of events. Where the light, the colour, the shape and the balance all interlock so beautifully that I feel truly overwhelmed by the wonder of it. " |
Anurag specialises in taking Panoramas and Time-lapses. Today’s digital technology permits him to capture space and time in a way that conventional photography cannot. A panorama or a time-lapse is a combination of hundreds and sometimes thousands of images stitched and blended together. It is that kink in the rules of physics through which, one can jump and bend temporality.
Anurag got interested in these two techniques as they have the ability to capture and present a visual scene like never before. His panoramas are a collection made on numerous treks over the last 10 years. While panoramas generally cover a 360 degree view (near impossible / quite expensive with film cameras), Time-lapses add that missing element of time to a scene. With time-lapses, photography is anything BUT a frozen moment of time. And the photographer decides how he wants to let 'Time' flow through his scene. |