 Gautam
Narang
What
is photography? What is art? What is the point of it?
It's everything around us, and it's yourself, there is no point,
it's putting your thoughts on paper, in an instant, expressing more
than words can, so many things.
Photography and art isn’t limited to the medium, it's more than
that, I believe the real art is the artist and the world, this is
what inspires us. What catches one persons eye, but another walks
past?
With photography I have learnt the value of detail, it has taught
me to look for details, to look for things, and this is more than
clicking a button.
The camera simply allows the user to catch the image; it is the
artist who sees it. The way I think is life is full of speeded up
days, what the camera does is crop this so you can focus on what
you want.
It takes a moment,
and stretches it to infinity, photography gives us the calm of observing
that moment properly, and life is like this to me, full of clutter,
and very special moments.
In India, I saw uncensored reality, real poverty, real madness,
not the sanitized cleaned up, behind closed doors society of Britain.
But why are these themes so interesting to me? Because they are
more real, everyone identifies with the underdog, not many can identify
with the entrenched falsity of the ruling classes.
This is where photography is different, it is designed to raise
questions rather than answers, but the result is that artists will
remain unfulfilled, because in their quest for answers, they simply
raise more questions. Don’t take anything on face value, everything
can be doctored even these words, read them once, forget them, and
go make your own art.
I'm 20 years
old
Gautam
Narang
►► Some of the artist's
artwork
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