Artist's Statement
Having born and brought up in a remote rural village close to jungles of Western Ghats my passion for nature is by birth.
It accidently turned into nature photography 15 years back, which is now a passion - as essential as air and water.
I love the unexplainable art of colors, colorless, forms, shapes, light... and the challenge of characterizing
interactions of those attributes which touches minds of those who love the art of light.
In field I stare through my view finder for hours, trying to understand what touches my soul and for what reason. This continues then at home sitting in front of the computer for hours. In search of art I went more than one full circle while trying to balance the use of tools and emotional needs of expressions as a human being.
In my work I would love to be faithful to the medium and portray the essence of my visual response rooted in my emotional needs and the elements of nature in front of me. I try to relate the arrangements of nature to my own value system, context of my life and see them in the light of feelings that those arrangements evoke within me. I don't want my works to be completely open for interpretation at the same time not completely closed too. I would love to leave a bit of room for my images to grow in the minds of the viewers being part of their emotional needs too.
- Ganesh H. Shankar.
In field I stare through my view finder for hours, trying to understand what touches my soul and for what reason. This continues then at home sitting in front of the computer for hours. In search of art I went more than one full circle while trying to balance the use of tools and emotional needs of expressions as a human being.
In my work I would love to be faithful to the medium and portray the essence of my visual response rooted in my emotional needs and the elements of nature in front of me. I try to relate the arrangements of nature to my own value system, context of my life and see them in the light of feelings that those arrangements evoke within me. I don't want my works to be completely open for interpretation at the same time not completely closed too. I would love to leave a bit of room for my images to grow in the minds of the viewers being part of their emotional needs too.
- Ganesh H. Shankar.
