A Candid and Documentary Photographer with his own style, Nilanjan Ray was born in Kolkata, India in 1959. Nilanjan has a handful of exposed stock on “HUMAN INTEREST” and keeps stock of other people’s money in a Bank since it is his profession. Although he did attend some workshop and classes at the different Institute, Nilanjan is to be considered substantially a self-taught photographer. He is a life member of an oldest Photographic club in Kolkata, Photographic Association of Bengal, Kolkata.
Started Photography as a hobby and gradually fell in love with it. Now he is a full-time Photographer with many Awards, Publications and Exhibitions under his belt. He likes to shoot in monochrome as he wants to feel the different shades of grey of life.
He continuously documented the most uncomfortable aspects of our contemporary world – human pain resulting from exploitation, the terror of wars, and ecological destruction along with the records of specific events in time and places, which have the power to transcend this specificity and even point to universality. It could be argued that human pain does not have nationality, ethnicity or country. It is something that we can all feel and share.
Over the years he has produced long and detailed photographic projects in various subjects in West Bengal as well as India.
Felicitated by Shutter Speed at Gallery Gold. 2023
Nilanjan Ray 