“photography is about time, an inherent quality of the medium that makes it unique among the arts; this is evident not only in the capture of an instant or the freezing of time but rather as a moment beyond time, embedded in the photograph like a fly in aspic …”
‘Amano Samarpan’ began photography in Nepal with a cheap compact camera, documenting people he knew and sacred dances. Studying photography in England followed, doing workshops at Duckspool with contemporary photographers such as Martin Parr, Faye Godwin and John Davies.
Samarpan’s work covers Tibetan Buddhist culture and birds of the Indian subcontinent as well as subjects closer to home such as A Mother’s Secret about his mother’s coming of age.
Photographs started to be published and in 1997, a book called Silent Meditation which Samarpan also edited, appeared containing a series of black and white photographs.
His first major book, A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India was published in 2006, winning a publishers award from The Federation of Indian Publishers. The book contains about 300 of his photographs and took around ten years to complete. Indian Birds in Focus is an A4 sized book with large photographs of Indian birds. His third book on Indian birds published in 2019 is called Among the Birds of India; it is a companion volume to The Birds of India, further increasing the number of bird species illustrated and described.
Samarpan travels regularly to India and elsewhere to photograph. More recently he has visited Bhutan and produced work about that country, in particular it’s birds.
Photographs on this website are available for sale as prints at any size; they can also be made available for publication. Since they represent only a small part of a much larger collection, enquiries are welcome…
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