{"id":166900,"date":"2013-07-19T19:18:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T13:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=166900"},"modified":"2013-07-19T19:18:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T13:48:01","slug":"shooting-from-the-hip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/shooting-from-the-hip\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting from the Hip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_166902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166902\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166902 \" alt=\"In search of salvation A group of pilgrims at Kalighat, Kolkata\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pilgrims-at-Kalighat.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"416\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-166902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>In search of salvation<\/strong> A group of pilgrims at Kalighat, Kolkata. Photo: Anirban Ray<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_166904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166904\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166904\" alt=\"Light &amp; Shade Anirban Ray Jaissp 85 pp; Rs 6,700 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Light-Shade.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"131\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-166904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Light &amp; Shade Anirban Ray Jaissp 85 pp; Rs 6,700<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFor Anirban Ray, photography isn\u2019t so much an art as an excuse to step out of the cocoon of bureaucratic life. To go watch people on the street, to start conversations, to understand adversity. Fascinated by human faces \u2014 his wife vetoed his initial idea of releasing his first book, <em>Light &amp; Shade<\/em>, as a collection exclusively of portraits \u2014 he loves capturing spontaneous moments (such as the one above), setting his subjects at ease and clicking them when they\u2019re off their guard.<br \/>\nAs a senior IPS officer, who began taking pictures from moving cars while posted in Darjeeling 10 years ago, it is also a way for him to carve an identity for himself that will persist even after he retires. For now, though, he remains the earnest amateur, navigating this \u201ccomplicated new area for me\u201d with a self-belief that inevitably comes with a published book.<br \/>\n<a href=\"%20ajachi@tehelka.com\">\u00a0ajachi@tehelka.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade of taking photographs has helped a policeman better understand the people he serves, finds Ajachi Chakrabarti <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":166902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[8040,8369,7056,1714,8370,7492,8140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}