I am a freelance photojournalist based in Kolkata, India. I started my career as an advertising photographer and have had worked with reputed advertising agencies, fashion designers, graphic designers and NGOs. From the very beginning, I was more interested in street photography; which later brought me to photojournalism. I started my career in photojournalism as a freelance in The Times of India. I have worked as the chief photographer and assignment director for EyePress photo agency based in Hong Kong. Presently I work as a freelance photojournalist for newspapers, magazines and NGOs. Presently me and my works are represented by Sipa Press (World market), Landov Llc (North American market). In 2003, I have received the National Media Fellowship from the National Foundation for India for my long term work on Indian Coal Miners. In 2006 I won the B. Bangoor Endowment Fellowship for my work on Indian Sex workers. I was awarded with the New America Media Award in photojournalism section in 2009 for my work 'Empowerment behind Burkha', published in Audrey Magazine (California, USA). My pictures have appeared in Le Figaro, Stern, Der Spiegel, The Sunday Telegraph, Le Monde, Liberation, Le point, De Volkskrant, Private, Forbes, Traveler Magazine (UK), Marie Claire and many other major publications throughout the world. Solo exhibition of my photographs have been held in New Delhi (India) and Cork city (Ireland). I am now 35 years old and living in Kolkata with my wife and mother. Please visit http://pa.photoshelter.com/c/arindam-mukherjee to visit my high resolution archive. I am also available for commissions. .
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India: Alley Of Magic
By Arindam Mukherjee
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 16 May 2010
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A petite settlement in north-west Delhi has a shade of wonder added to it! The ‘Kathputli Colony’ - as it is popularly known is no different from a typical Indian slum with its worn-out shanties, dirty lanes and pitiable basic infrastructure. But the people who throng the alleys of this illegal skid row are sorcerers [...]