Jayati Saha
Photography

About

my photographic journey

“I used to hear stories without hearing a single word.
Epics, sagas, memoirs.
Of courage, love, pain.
A shaft of white light cutting through the prison of darkness to free the old lady.
A glint of steel in the eyes of an tribal girl who refused to give in to modernisation.
And every time I heard a story, I froze.
I had to pass it on just the way I heard it,
I had to capture it all before they were lost forever.
I had to stay true to how miracles unfolded suddenly, without preamble,in the infinity of space and time.
So I took the easy way out.
Or you could say that I did it the only way I could.
I taught myself to tell stories without saying a single word.
That’s my story.
Rather, the ongoing memoir,
Of a split second storyteller.”

A split second storyteller who tells stories without saying a single word, photo-artist Jayati Saha of India amazes with her frames of nuanced light and shadow, seamlessly fusing her art with technical finesse. Exhibited and owned worldwide, Jayati is a much-in-demand artist, teacher and competition judge. Jayati’s extremely sensitive eye has captured moments glistening with human emotions and her forte is seeing the unseen and the unnoticed. Based out of Kolkata, India, Jayati is peripatetic and her journeys have taken her to the India not known or seen by many. She is also a contributor at the Getty Images Inc., USA. She was the adjudicator at the Photography competition hosted by the SAARC , 2015 

EXHIBITIONS

2019 | Kolkata International Photography Festival
2018 | Niches of Life, 2018 – Gallery Gold, Kolkata
2017 | Niches of Life, 2017 – Gallery Gold, Kolkata
2016 | Kolkata Moments, 2016 – Maya Art Space Gallery, Kolkata
2015 | Celebrating Life with Colours 2015 –J D A Perera Gallery, University of Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo; Harold Peiris Gallery, Lionel Wendt Memorial Art Centre, Colombo; Art Gallery of University of Kelaniya, Colombo.
2015 | Travel Photographer Asia 2015 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2012 | Colors and People 2012 – Calcutta Information Centre, Kolkata, India
2011 | Namaste India, 2011 – Bucharest, Romania
2010 | India Angles 2010 – Indian Council of Cultural Relations, Kolkata, India

AWARDS

2022 | Swam Siddha Award 14 (Rotary Club of Calcutta, Metro City)
2016 | International Photography Awards, 2016 (Second Award)
2015 | Travel Photographer Asia, 2015 (Best 50 images)
2015 | Humanity Photography Awards, 2015 (Performance Awards)
2015 | Prix De La Photographie Paris, 2015 (Hon’ble Mention)
2014 | International Photography Awards, 2014 (Hon’ble Mention)

PUBLICATIONS

Life Force Magazine – Gujjars of Devmali
Life Force Magazine – The Story of Holi
Photojournale – Labour of Faith
Private Photo Review – Ashabari – Home of Hope
Jara Parijayee – Lord of the Yellow Mountain
Outlook – See the Grim Reaper Come
Classic Imaging Magazine – Little Train from memory lane – On a journey of holding on.
Indian Photo Arts – Chinese New Year, when Lions prowled the streets of Kolkata.
Classic Imaging Magazine – Dying Art of Dyeing.
People”s Archive of Rural India (PARI) – Creating Colour Like the Warm Light of the Sun.
Sahapedia Frames – The Golden Jejuri