Fascinated by light and the manner in which it affects colours, Binu Bhaskar draws inspiration from cinema and his affinity with nature. It is an emotional connect – one that he feels strongly with the landscape – that comes through immediately. Having worked on a few short films while studying English at Calicut University, he went on to study photography in Melbourne. His sensitivity and a sense of nostalgia come through strongly in his family portraits. “More than that I wanted to portray that we are part of this beautiful land we live upon – for me the togetherness not only comes from within them but with how related they are to nature itself.”

“There is a reference to how we used to do photographs with a painted backdrop, while here it is a real landscape.”

“They evoke nostalgia as a starting point…. The sitters in these photos are people who have been very close to me, hence raising the question: ‘is family just related through blood?’”

“I choose to work with people who have an affinity to land and have planted some trees in their lifetime, and who with their way of life have contributed culturally to the community.”

Binu Bhaskar has a diploma in illustrative photography from Photography Studies College, Melbourne. He worked in Dubai with advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi. He has held several photography shows.

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