Immersion

An idol is made with a lot of hard work and a lot of care. And it is worshipped with lot of respect. And it is immersed with a festive mood.

Once the idol is immersed, we don’t turn around and look back to see what changes it got. The change that we don’t see usually, my photography starts from there.  That is, the idol that undergoes these three transformations, in a step by step manner, what changes it gets once it’s immersed is what I’m portraying in my photographs. This is the truth and this is what I’m portraying.

Here, the idol which is immersed is a subject, and in the same way immersion itself is a subject. Here the immersion is important, not the subject of immersion, the idol.

At Kumortuli

Kumortuli (also spelt Kumartuli, or the archaic spelling Coomartolly) (Bengali) is a traditionally potters’ quarter in northern Kolkata(previously known as Calcutta), the capital of the east Indian state of West Bengal. By virtue of their artistic productions these potters have moved from obscurity to prominence. This Kolkata neighbourhood, not only supplies clay idols of Hindu gods and goddesses to barowari pujas in Kolkata and its neighbourhoods, but a number of idols are exported.It is one of the seven wonders in Kolkata.

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