Manas Bhattacharya

The famous cinematographer Manas Bhattacharya is a self-taught photographer in Kolkata. Born on 1st January 1970, this personality works for the editorial department as a colorist. He also looks after the camera and editorial department, along with cinematography, which he learned from Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute.

He is a bright student enrolled in the postgraduate department of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, in Kolkata. He also took formal training in the field of cinematography and video from Chitrabani society West Bengal, Kolkata. Manas Bhattacharya has two collaborators named Arjun Dutta, who is a graphic designer from Kolkata, and Debashis Sarkar, who is a self-taught painter.

These three personalities believe in the concept of digital imaging, where people interested in different fields, such as photography, painting, etc, can work with their creative minds and include their rhetoric that will lead to the convergence of diverse media. These three personalities also expect a website or a gallery exhibition where new concepts and methods of viewing the images can be introduced within conventional sectors. Madhuban Mitra also works with him as an artist, and their works are based on time and memory, original and copy, etc.

The Skoda Breakthrough Artist Award and Embarrat Award were granted to the duo. He did previous works such as Lokkhon Rekha in the year 2022, Shuruponakhar Agomon in the year 2021, still voices in the year 2021, Broken silence in 2006, etc. Under the department of Camera and Electrical, he gained fame for his works such as Fish, Sweets & More, Tabe Tai Hok, and Germ. Under the Editorial Head, he did Mayer Biye in 2015, Shankhachil in 2016, and Amar Akashe Megh Brishti in 2014. He has one upcoming project named Couple of Heaven, where he is the cinematographer.

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Manas Bhattacharya is a self-taught photographer. He took proper training in Video and Cinematography from Chitrabani Society, Kolkata, India. He has been a part of post-graduate student of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Manas, along with Arjun Dutta and Debashis Sarkar is involved in developing a body of new work in digital imaging. They work on topics such as photography, graphic design, and painting, but the main focus of their project is on the need to rethink about these categories.

One of the properties of Digital Imaging, according to them, is that it allows people from different artistic disciplines, for example, graphic design, painting, and photography, to work on their terms and to apply their rhetoric, which leads to a convergence of various media. They believe the digital image is inaugurating ‘a more democratic ecology of images’ grounded in every day, reproducible, and mass consumption. They emphasize to try and locate the impact of the convergence of new imaging media.

Manas, and his teammates, proposed to develop a website, an art gallery exhibition, a short animated sequence of images, and a visual poem as the outcome of their project. They feel that this art of work could help to develop new readings. They also wish to take up new challenges of introducing new ways of viewing images in conventional contexts. Some of Manas’s works are ‘Fish,’ ‘Caterpillar Has Wings,’ ‘Tabe Tai Hok,’ and Sweets and More.’