Look at this image of these models on the invitation card. I also shoot beyond office hours, if there is an event later in the evening, I would rather attend the event than go home. Even on assignments, I may take a few additional offbeat shots. The films, scanning and printing is sponsored and the exhibitions are held at the National Centre for Performing Arts, which is free of cost. Photographs have a charm of their own and are frozen in time.
Video films fulfill their own needs, especially to capture live events.
But the images are moving and the moment passes off, if not captured in a photograph. Even for multi-media, the basic photograph is necessary to create the images. I was earlier working with Mid-day, in Mumbai for their Sportsweek magazine, marketing around the country. This job gave me an opportunity to travel to different parts in India and interact with different kinds of people. Normally, after I returned I used to regret that I could not bring back the images of the people, places and various things that I had observed in these new places.