Sunil K. Dutt | |
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Born |
Kolkata, India | 31 December 1939
Alma mater | Surendranath College |
Occupation | Photographer |
Sunil K. Dutt (born 31 December 1939) is an Indian photographer [1] [2] and photojournalist. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Dutt is known as the photo chronicler of Mother Teresa's life and work for more than thirty years till her death in 1997. [7] [8] He is also known as a chronicler of Calcutta and its many moods [9] [10] for his vignettes of life in Kolkata, India. [11] [5] [3] His photographs have been published in many newspapers, magazines and journals, and he has received many national and international awards. [12] [13] Sunil K. Dutt has been in the field of photography and photojournalism for more than fifty years. [13] [7] [3]
Sunil K. Dutt [2] was born in Kolkata on 31 December 1939. He was greatly inspired by Swami Vivekananda. His words "When you are born a man, leave some indelible mark behind you", [14] always haunted him. [15] After completing his studies from Surendranath College, Kolkata, he started writing articles for various magazines. [16]
Dutt never planned of having a career in the field of photography at first. When he was writing in Dr. Karuna Mukherjee's magazine Gharani', [17] he was advised to give visual support to his writings to make the subjects more attractive. That was the starting point of his journey with photography. He started to take photographs to make his articles more attractive and later he chose it as his career and started working as a professional photographer for the rest of his life. [16] At the early stage of his career as a photographer, he was appointed to take Mother Teresa's photographs by the editor of Junior Statesman., [18] published from Kolkata, Desmond Doig, [7] the writer of Calcutta: An Artist's Impression, [19] Mother Teresa: Her People and Her Work [20] [21] and many more books. [22] This assignment was the turning point of Dutt's career. [7]
By the end of the 1960s, a documentary was made on Mother Teresa, and in the early 1970s, [21] the first ever book on her, Something Beautiful for God [23] was published by Harper Collins (based on the documentary). It was written and undertaken by Malcolm Muggeridge with the photographs of Mother Teresa snapped by Sunil K. Dutt. [24] Dutt's pictorial book titled Kolkata Canvas [13] portrays the life of Kolkata. It has more than 100 photographs on various aspects of city and its reality. Dutt's other pictorial books are Robir Aloy Alokchitro, Durga Puja, Amay Gach Kore Dao, Shantiniketan, Mother Teresa - Down Memory Lane. [25] [26] [8] [13]
"Dear Sunil, God love you for the love you gave through your photos. God bless you." Mother Teresa's quote on a smiling black and white photo of hers. [7]
"From the day I first met her Mother always appeared to me a living saint in action,"."My association with Mother Teresa has impacted my life in a very big way. Whenever I think of her I feel a profound peace in the very core of my heart." [8] [49]
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Sunil K. Dutt | |
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Born |
Kolkata, India | 31 December 1939
Alma mater | Surendranath College |
Occupation | Photographer |
Sunil K. Dutt (born 31 December 1939) is an Indian photographer [1] [2] and photojournalist. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Dutt is known as the photo chronicler of Mother Teresa's life and work for more than thirty years till her death in 1997. [7] [8] He is also known as a chronicler of Calcutta and its many moods [9] [10] for his vignettes of life in Kolkata, India. [11] [5] [3] His photographs have been published in many newspapers, magazines and journals, and he has received many national and international awards. [12] [13] Sunil K. Dutt has been in the field of photography and photojournalism for more than fifty years. [13] [7] [3]
Sunil K. Dutt [2] was born in Kolkata on 31 December 1939. He was greatly inspired by Swami Vivekananda. His words "When you are born a man, leave some indelible mark behind you", [14] always haunted him. [15] After completing his studies from Surendranath College, Kolkata, he started writing articles for various magazines. [16]
Dutt never planned of having a career in the field of photography at first. When he was writing in Dr. Karuna Mukherjee's magazine Gharani', [17] he was advised to give visual support to his writings to make the subjects more attractive. That was the starting point of his journey with photography. He started to take photographs to make his articles more attractive and later he chose it as his career and started working as a professional photographer for the rest of his life. [16] At the early stage of his career as a photographer, he was appointed to take Mother Teresa's photographs by the editor of Junior Statesman., [18] published from Kolkata, Desmond Doig, [7] the writer of Calcutta: An Artist's Impression, [19] Mother Teresa: Her People and Her Work [20] [21] and many more books. [22] This assignment was the turning point of Dutt's career. [7]
By the end of the 1960s, a documentary was made on Mother Teresa, and in the early 1970s, [21] the first ever book on her, Something Beautiful for God [23] was published by Harper Collins (based on the documentary). It was written and undertaken by Malcolm Muggeridge with the photographs of Mother Teresa snapped by Sunil K. Dutt. [24] Dutt's pictorial book titled Kolkata Canvas [13] portrays the life of Kolkata. It has more than 100 photographs on various aspects of city and its reality. Dutt's other pictorial books are Robir Aloy Alokchitro, Durga Puja, Amay Gach Kore Dao, Shantiniketan, Mother Teresa - Down Memory Lane. [25] [26] [8] [13]
"Dear Sunil, God love you for the love you gave through your photos. God bless you." Mother Teresa's quote on a smiling black and white photo of hers. [7]
"From the day I first met her Mother always appeared to me a living saint in action,"."My association with Mother Teresa has impacted my life in a very big way. Whenever I think of her I feel a profound peace in the very core of my heart." [8] [49]
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