Talented young photographer needs support

Debsuddha Banerjee is a young photographer of great talent who is seriously involved with the issues in his native country.  His work is amazing and meaningful, and his photos have been used by many news agencies. He has also been involved in documentary work. (I include his biographical statements in his own words below).

Debsuddha has been invited to the 2019 Angkor Photo Festival and Workshop, but he is in need of financial assistance to travel to Cambodia to participate. I would like to raise $900 to assist this young man, whose work I believe in. I have met him in person and since then have followed his work for years, and I am very impressed by his talent and his potential to impact photojournalism throughout his life.

To see the merit of his work, please go to his Instagram, which is https://www.instagram.com/deb_shuddho/. 

For details on the competition, go here:  https://angkor-photo.com/15th-edition/2019-participants/

Thanks for any donation you choose to make.

Regards,

Matt Posner
author and teacher


Here is Debsuddha's biography, followed by his personalized request for support.

Born in 1989, Debsuddha is a documentary photography practitioner from Kolkata, India. His field of interests is socio political and humanitarian issues. Since 2015 he has been involved with Sundarban and made a documentary film on tiger victim issue and alternative practice for sustainable economy in river bank erosion affected areas of Sundarban associating with a local NGO. He had worked with Al Arabiya, ZUMA Press of USA, and Pacific press of Philippines. His major publications are TIME magazine, Mother Jones, Al Arabiya, Huffington post, Newsweek, MSN, SDN, blur magazine, specific magazine amongst others. His previous works on Nepal aftermath’15 and gender discrimination issue were exhibited in photo festivals in China on 2016. His current project ‘Towards the no man’s land they say’ was nominated on International photography grant, 2018. Debsuddha believes long term project does posses more power to express a lot of things rather than words through its visual potential.


Respected all,

I am Debsuddha Banerjee, a documentary photography practitioner from Kolkata, India. This year I got selected for 15th Angkor photo festival and workshop, one of the most precious and valuable platform to get training regarding visual art. Due to my financial crisis I am requesting for this fund raising program. This program is going to held from November 27th to December 7th, 2019 at Siem Reap, Cambodia.

I will be grateful to all of you for kind support.

 

Regards,

Debsuddha