Artist and professional photographer Gautam Narang, London, UK

Fourth Gallery Summary

A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force.
It offers itself up.
It is the photo that takes you.
One must not take photos.
-Henri Cartier-Bresson

New Clothes

Rivals

Kiss For Peace

Man In Black

Ring Tones

Learn To Give

Streetstuff

Reflections

Sad

Smile

Artist and professional photographer Gautam Narang

What is photography? What is Art? What is the point of it? It's everything around us, and it's yourself. There is no point. It's putting your thoughts on paper in an instant, expressing more than words can, so many things.

Photography and art isn't limited to the medium. It's more than that. I believe that real art is the artist and the world, this is what inspires us. What catches one person's eye but another walks past?

With photography I have learnt the value of detail. It has taught me to look for details, to look for things. This is more than clicking a button

The camera simply allows the user to catch the image; it is the artist who sees it. The way I think is life of speeded up days. What the camera does is crop this so you can focus on what you want.

It takes a moment, and stretches it to infinity. Photography gives us the calm of observing that moment properly, and life is like that to me, full of clutter, and very special moments.

In India, I saw uncensored reality; real poverty, real madness - not the sanitised cleaned up, behind closed doors society of Britain. But why are these themes so interesting to me? Because they are more real. Everyone identifies with the underdog, not many can identify with the entrenched falsity of the ruling classes.

This is where photography is different. It raises questions rather than answers, but the result is that artists will remain unfulfilled, because, in their quest for answers, they simply raise more questions.

Don't take anything on face value. Everything can be doctored, even these words. Read them once, forget them.

Oh, yah, I'm 21.

Gautam Narang, Oct 2005

EXHIBITIONS

India (Organized by the People for Animal Welfare NGO) 2005
St. Petersburg Arts Centre, Florida 2005
Group exhibition, Field of New York (Gallery New York) 2004
Artist of the month, Inspire art gallery, London 2004
ArtMinds,London 2004

AWARDS

MTV photo essay award 2004
Canon top shot 1st place in Canon EOS magazine 2004
Fujifilm merit award winner 2003-2004

PUBLISHED in......

Aesthetica magazine (front cover), BBC website,
pixel press,
f-stop magazine,
EOS magazine (Top shot best photograph of the month)
Creative soup zine (a new magazine that publish artwork from emerging artist),
Revolver,
Global Tribe is an exciting new program that connects young people around the world through meaningful service projects.
Five Photographs used for Boomerang media, a postcard company that distributes postcards to universities, nightclubs & Cinemas,
Canon CPS website official site for Canon Pros.
TakeGreatPictures.
I was also Featured in double dare press magazine for my project on schools in India,the website gets 350,000 hits a month.
Artist for www.e-cards.com with monthly hits of 6-million peoplemy travel photography is on the website.
FILE Magazine,
Adbusters magazine with a print run of 60,000 its a magazine that gets distrusted all around Canada,
Sun magazine and arts magazine in India,
Smart Photography an Indian magazine that displays emerging artists distributed throughout India,
European Magazine free magazine featuring art, exhibitions, travel, hotels, restaurants, fashion ,etc. We have a top class distribution in five star hotels, golf courses, marinas, boutiques, and also in the Thyssen-Bornemitza Museum in Madrid..
Medium Magazine one of the hottest magazines out their for emerging issues my work is in issue two 2005.
Published in BJP (British Journal of Photography) one the best know photography magazines on the planet, an essay was published in Junes issue/2005.! !

Gautam Narang's wonderful photgrahy can be viewed in the Spittlefields Gallery, London in October. Aldgate East Tube station.