I got a chance to leisurely see his pictures, and have a chat with the man. An aging Satyan was very lovingly putting up his pictures on the wall along with photojournalist and my friend Chirodeep Chaudhari. When I reached there, I saw that the gallery was completely empty. I thought I will get some time to chat up Satyan. I happened to visit the Piramal Gallery about an hour before the scheduled preview that day. Creative people should never be treated in this manner. I had never heard of TS Satyan, veteran photojournalist, till I went for a preview of his photographs at the Piramal Gallery in South Mumbai around 1999-2000. Pic Courtesy: A news ticker running on NDTV yesterday said "Mysore: Photographer TS Satyan dies at the age of 86", and it took me back to my brief interaction with the man. More power to her!ĭo check her pictures from Guinea Bissau at the end of this interview. I am posting couple of her interviews to give you a glimpse of Ami Vitale. Then she vanished again and now she has emerged in Miami, Florida! Some day I hope to get her to Mumbai to speak and participate in our activities. So, I persuaded her to write a piece about Kashmir that she covered, and despite her schedule, she managed to write and send her pictures for the photo-book that we published. But, she was busy travelling and shooting, and couldn’t make it. We were in the middle of organising a national photocontest in 2005, and I was trying to invite her as a jury. So, her pictures are not about cows-walking-the-city-roads and snake-charmers. Usually, foreign photographers see a country and its culture from outside-in perspective, but I thought Ami saw India from the inside-out perspective. What was striking about her work was her complete involvement with her subjects in which ever country she has travelled. She is into much deeper things than capturing the on-the-spot action pictures or the blood, gore and shock of world conflicts though to be fast enough to freeze the action in a moment is a skill of a different kind. What differentiates Ami from the other global photographers is that she is not into "spot news" photography. She has also added other features to the website. Clean, minimalistic design, and focus firmly on the pictures she has made in different countries. It was the simplicity of the website that struck a chord. That's when I searched and found her website. Later, she won a World Press Photo award for one of her Kashmir pictures. Ami had come to India and based herself in Kashmir to cover the conflict. I first heard about Ami about six-seven years ago. It was just by chance that I discovered Ami's website. I have put it on top of the list because I happen to visit it couple of days ago, and saw that it has been redesigned.
Have you checked Ami Vitale's website in the "Some Interesting Websites" section on this blog. With Supreme Court taking cognisance of her case, will Aruna's Story finally have an end?
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Sohanlal Walmiki was convicted for seven years, (and that too not for sexual assault or unnatural sex), and walked a free man. The doctors have not conducted any medical tests on her either for last 15 years. Her relatives have stopped visiting the hospital The KEM nurses take care of her to ensure that she doesn't get bed sores. That has been keeping her alive all these years. Mashed food is put into her mouth by KEM nurses, and it gets swallowed. She is not on life support nor is she intravenously fed. She was in love with a doctor and was slated to marry him soon. On a plea from journalist and author Pinki Virani, the Supreme Court today issued notices to the KEM Hospital, the BMC, the Maharashtra Government and the Centre asking them to provide information about her condition.Īrun was 25 years old when the incident changed her life. It has been 36 years since Aruna Shanbhag, a young KEM Hospital staff nurse, was raped and strangulated with a dog chain by a sweeper, Sohanlal Walmiki, and has been lying brain dead at the KEM Hospital.