Everyone enjoys clicking pictures of monuments and structures on their vacations. But a picture can be more than just a picture. At our online photography workshop #BeyondAPicture, ‘Chronicler of Bombay’ Chirodeep Chaudhuri attempts to make participants see heritage through their lens in a different manner, making them think of it as something beyond mere architecture or aesthetic artefacts that deserve to be photographed. He will expose participants to seeing how photographs of heritage can be a tool for documenting their city and also for rekindling memories and recounting stories among other things.

Age group: 15+ years

Duration: 2 hours

About the presenter

Chirodeep Chaudhuri was the Editor of Photography at National Geographic Traveler (India). His work documents the urban landscape and he has often been referred to as the “chronicler of Bombay”. During his career he has produced diverse documents of his home city in a range of projects like “Seeing Time: Public Clocks of Bombay”, “The One-Rupee Entrepreneur”, “The Commuters”, “In the city, a library” among others. He lives in Mumbai and divides his time between his various teaching assignments and photographing subjects as diverse as the abandoned helmets, café visitors and airport smoking rooms.