• Portrait Shoot

    Portrait Shoot

    Studio Portrait Shoot Experience By Ashok Karan As a photojournalist, my life and lens have always been drawn to the outdoors—capturing moments of student unrest, political turbulence, cultural festivals, sports, and incidents that unfolded in real time. Studio photography was never really a part of my professional journey. Most of my portraits were shot…

  • Overloaded Vehicle

    Overloaded Vehicle

    🚛📸 खतरनाक ढंग से घर लौटते लोग झारखंड के एक सुदूर असाइनमेंट के दौरान मैंने एक बेहद चौंकाने वाला और चिंताजनक दृश्य देखा। ग्रामीण तेज़ रफ्तार से भागती विभिन्न आकार की गाड़ियों पर असंतुलित ढंग से सवार होकर साप्ताहिक हाट से घर लौट रहे थे। जिज्ञासा से मैंने कुछ लोगों से बात की। उन्होंने…

  • Women Power

    Women Power

    Women Power – Breaking Barriers, Building Nations 🚂✈️👩‍⚕️👩‍🔧 As a Picture Editor and Visualizer, I once had the privilege of working on a special assignment for International Women’s Day. My task was to curate and capture images of women who have made remarkable contributions in their fields—women whose journeys inspire countless others to dream…

  • Golden Hours

    Golden Hours

        Golden Hours                           Once I was in Patna, the capital of Bihar. As I had gone there after a long gap, so I became mesmerized to see the metamorphic changes the city had. When I left Patna about 22 Years back it was a bleak say slender city but nowadays that…

  • Blue Mountain

    Blue Mountain

          Blue Mountain                     While searching some files . I suddenly came across few pictures which I shot long back, in Australia, where I had gone to meet my son and was there for about four months, he, spared sometimes from his official duties and was able  to show me almost…

  • Litti Chokha

    Litti Chokha

      Litti Chokha                           Litti Chokha is a staple diet and very popular cuisine in Western Bihar’s Bhojpur region, are made of wheat flour after making it salty and its dough stuffed with gram powder (Sattu) mixed with other spicy ingredients and in it, made in round shape of apple size and served…

  • Kiama Blow Hole

    Kiama Blow Hole

                                      Kiama Blow Hole                     While sojourning in Sydney with my family a programme was set to visit Kiama a beautiful seaside town on the NSW South Coast, is about 3 hrs drive from Sydney, famous for Blow Hole, so one day we hit the road for the same, while on way…

  • Palamu Fort turned into ruins

    Palamu Fort turned into ruins

                       Palamu fort a glorious past turned into ruin               About the journey:   Once I was assigned to do some photo story on Betla Tiger Reserve (BTR) or say Betla National Park and I along with my colleague Shyam went over there by train to Daltonganj from…

  • Palkot, Jharkhand

    Palkot, Jharkhand

      Palkot                 One fine morning I got a call from one of the admin of Jharkhand Photographic Association, (JPA) Ranchi that they are organizing a photo walk am I interested? Seeing a golden opportunity I just grabbed the invitation and joined them.   After three and half hours bus ride we reached on…

  • Giggling

    Giggling

     v   Giggling                           Few years back I got merriment news of arrival of a new comer in our family and we become grandparents. So that was a great exurberance  moment for all of us and the baby girl wholeheartedly welcomed in the family and accordingly we set out for Patna to have…