Idea in My Mind

The Fallen Valentine is an image very close to my heart, as this was shot right after the Pulwama attack. We all know that tragedy had befallen our armed forces in J&K, when a convoy of the Indian Army was attacked and many killed on 14 February 2019. Death is symbolised by the broken glasses of the frame, followed by the affection of love
connoted by the red rose.

Illusion was an experimental shot, wherein I was trying to create multiple images out of a person, through her shadows. In the above image, I used a curtain in front of the subject, two soft boxes from two sides to blow out the background and one soft box
(strip) from her back, to get her shadow falls on the curtain in front. A trigger was used to bounce off the light, to get 3 shadows of a single person. This image is very close to my heart due to its experimental value.

STOP was created as a PROTEST against the crimes against women. I wanted to
pass a strong mess- age to the society to stop these kinds of misdemeanours and I
thought, there can be no better way than bringing it out through
the EYES of steel of a woman.

BEAST was created to bring out the hidden animal inside us. Though it is widely known that a portrait categorically requires two eyes to feature properly, but the idea that went behind this image was to bring out the cunningness and the cruelty
of the character. Hence the usage of gradient colour, to add drama to the composition and the focus on the single eye to bring out the cruelty and hideous nature of the beast within us.

B A P T I S M B Y BLOOD was created from the concept of t h e V I K I N G S . I n
a n c i e n t S a x o n h i s t o r y , w e fi n d mention of the Viking P a g a n Wa r L o r d
Ragnar Lothbroke, who had wreaked HAVOC in the heartland of Wessex and Wales (erstwhile part of Unified ENGLAND). He was a ferocious fighter and had shed many a blood of the Saxons before he was executed in a snake pit. Ragnar was also the first
Pagan to be baptised in Christianity, and the process was incomplete without a holy dip in the water. My depiction of blood instead of the holy water was because of the reason that the life of Ragnar Lothbroke was one of bloodshed and ferocity along with his great leadership skills

GRIT, an emotion or state of mind widely used amongst mankind to show the mental strength against the vulnerabilities of life, was the thought behind creating this image. I wanted the subject to evoke an emotion of strength and grit through her expressions. The image I believe caters to the state of mind required within the women to fight against all adversities in their life against the patriarchal society of mankind.

THE GLITZ OF GLAMOUR is based on the storyboard of a woman who dreams of the glitz of the glamour world in her life. The colour gels were used to create the mood and the ambience. The subject was asked to stare at the oblivion as dreams are always unlimited. The darkness of the background symbolizes the dark sides of the same world.

THE RAVEN symbolises the dark side of the ancient saxon history again, wherein these large black crows were used for communicating messages from one city to another and the interesting part of these ravens was, they also used to symbolize Death. I tried to bring out the same eerie dark ambience with the usase of the black background and the introspective eyes of the subject.

Author's Details:

Eminent photographer, Jeet Mukerji has been inspiring us with his photo work of light,
figure & portrait. The unique compositions in his photographs Shows the Glimpse of his profound talent. We feel once more fortunate to get into the creative mind of this renowned photographer.