The Journey Continues

Prithviraj Banerjee | Prithviraj comes from an IT background and has a passion for photography and travel. Since childhood he has been fascinated with landscape and nature. His passion towards photography developed as a hobby and he has travelled across India and other countries in the world. He resides in Mumbai and loves to share his experience by mentoring new photographers through photo tours and workshops.

- Sweta Baruah

How did you venture into photography? Tell us your story.

Since childhood, I have loved to draw mountains, streams, waterfalls, etc. but it was only after my graduation that I realised that it is called landscape. Later, my wife gifted me a point and shoot Nikon P500 to start with. Gradually, I realised the limitations of a point and shoot and then moved to a D-SLR in the year 2015. All this while, I had been shooting only landscapes and waterfalls around Mumbai. With my D-SLR, my first tour was driving to Spiti Valley. This was when I took photography more seriously and was fortunate enough to travel to Europe, US as well as many parts of India. I learnt a lot from fellow photographers too whose images have been published in Smart Photography. Some of them are Prasad Malgaokar, Pulak Nath, Sushil Chikane, etc. Slowly and gradually, I started to conduct workshops and mentored many new comers into the Landscape photography genre.

What does photography mean to you? Is there a message you want to share through your photographs?