Roby Das 'framed'

Roby Das "The pictures I shoot have no pre-conceived meanings. No inner meanings whatsoever they reflect either," says Roby Das a self-trained photographer in New Delhi who was on a visit here. He adheres to frames of life in his clicks, not meanings. Frames he carved are anecdotes of land and people. He believes that most effective mode of communication is photography as the camera has the ability to capture the essence of an expression in all its purity and innocence. He learnt basic photography from his father, who was a professional photographer once. Now he is a full-fledged travel photographer. A solo trip from Srinagar to Kanyakumari on motorcycle gave him ample opportunity to shoot enough beauty and charm. For once, he listened to the call of the heart for a feat. He distributed one lakhs of pamphlets on traffic safety in English and languages of the states he crossed. His name was duly included in Limca Book of Records, of the March 2011 edition. "Now, I have to run and click those frames before they vanish from this world," laments Roby Das on the degrading rivers and disappearing paddy fields of the country. He wants to fill his frames with all the curves, length and breadth of nature. Roby is therefore fuelling himself for another journey: another solo bike expedition through the coastal belt of the country. This long stretch from Porbandar to Kolkotha on the thunder bird will take more than 40 days. When others travel for the heck, his journeys gift him with excellent clicks! Roby first mounted a solo exhibition of his fifty photographs at AIFAC, Rafi Marg, and New Delhi in 2008, followed by one at Ashok hotel, New Delhi. An exhibition of 20 portraits, "faces of India", held at the Constitution Club on the occasion of Independence Day, another one "Dawn and Desk" at Trivandrum, and the "third coloured views" at Lalita Kala Akademy, Chennai drew the desire crowds. Roby Das hails from Sreekandapuram, a small hamlet in Kannur.