Portraits play a unique role in how we see the world and how we see ourselves. They have evolved over time and across generations.  India International Centre and Samvedana Culture & Heritage Trust presented a unique collection of Portraits spanning generations at India International Centre (IIC) Lodhi Road, New Delhi from 20^th– 27^th March, 2019 in which Yaman Navalakha who is a young photographer & documentary film-maker presented his exceptional collection at the exhibition. This exhibition was sponsored by Indicus Foundation, Samvedana Foundation, Oizom, Manvantra & Elliot Group (Goa)

Yaman Navalakha belongs to the young upcoming generation of photographers, whose pictures depicts introspection into the India that is emerging and finally, a collection of young adolescents photographers work that reflects the wonder of a new-born, opening its eyes for the first time.

Yaman lives in New Delhi and after graduating in Literature from the University of Delhi, studied photography at Triveni Kala Sangam, receiving a Diploma in Film Photography in 2009 and since then has been practicing photography and documentary film making professionally. He is a founding partner of Post-Art Project, a multi-disciplinary art studio. A keen musician, he has composed and recorded background scores for short films and documentaries.

Yaman experiments with transferring the idea of character portraits in a studio setting to a public space. Character portraits in a studio or in a private, intimate space are a study of time that allows both the subject and the photographer to control the conditions and circumstances. The inevitable “dropping of inhibitions”, or the moment the facade falls to reveal the face is when the photographer releases the shutter. Public spaces afford no such luxury, of light, comfort, silence or privacy. His aim is to makeportraits of people who have either carved out intimate spaces amidst chaos, or facilitate subjects to drop their inhibitions in unfamiliar and bustling areas of the city. He tries to avoid the ubiquitous concept of candid street photography by actually having a dialogue of awareness between the subject and photographer.

KRC Times interviewed him at his exhibition about his perspective as a photographer and entrepreneur. He shared his views, how young photographers can chase their dream till end and succeed even with limited resources. For the detail interview with Yaman Navlakha checkout our upcoming journal KRC Times for Aspirations of Youth – Second Issue