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"Finding Beauty in Common Things"
Navin Vatsa
A self-taught passionate photographer and
an educator, Mr. Navin Vatsa is very much dedicated in capturing candid Street
moments and the stories of Travel domain. He has his Master’s Degree in
Computer Applications and taught computers to graduate and post graduate
students for over 9 years. He also served Jagannath University, Jaipur as Joint
Registrar for 7 years, and now from last 3 years he has devoted his full time
to his in-born Art, Photography. So with the experience of teaching,
administration and Art, he has the ability to visualize and implement the
creative ideas in photography to complete his compositions with some unique
stories. Photography is like a source of energy to him that he also tries to
portray through his art work.
He has the ability of finding beauty in
most common things and from unnoticed surroundings. He put all his work with
simplicity that can easily reach to the people’s heart. His Photographs has the
power to communicate directly to the viewers so that they can read the story
well. Photography is one of the unique medium for him to show his own
personality and character to the world through his photographs.
He has been awarded and recognized by
various International/National organizations and publications of high repute
such as National Geographic, UNESCO, Sony World, Sony India, Inspiro India, Asian
Photography & Imaging magazine, Creative Image Magazine, Heritage youth
Foundation Delhi, Camarena Academy (Best photographer of the year 2016 and
awarded by Sir Raghu Rai for the same) etc. One of his photographs was
published by Sony India in its “Annual Calendar 2016”.
In April-May 2017 by “SONY World
Photography Award” one of his photograph of Travel category got commended by
the juries and placed within top best 50 out of 105,692 submission from 182
countries and exhibited at the prestigious Somerset House, London from 21st
April to 7th May, 2017. Recently his 22 pages Artwork with
complete story “Marbles of Faith” on Jama Masjid, Delhi was published in
September 2017 issue of Indian Photo Arts (IPA) online Magazine (http://www.indianphotoarts.com/wp-content/themes/ipa/IPAMAGsep2017.pdf).
He is one of the Mentors and Admin of a
largest Facebook Photography group in India, Camarena Academy.
--Dr. Pankaj Sharma
