Sunil K. Dutt Explained

Sunil K. Dutt
Birth Date:31 December 1939
Birth Place:Kolkata, India
Occupation:Photographer
Alma Mater:Surendranath College

Sunil K. Dutt (born 31 December 1939) is an Indian photographer[1] [2] and photojournalist.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Dutt is known as the photo chronicler of Mother Teresa's life and work for more than thirty years till her death in 1997.[7] [8] He is also known as a chronicler of Calcutta and its many moods[9] [10] for his vignettes of life in Kolkata, India.[11] [5] [3] His photographs have been published in many newspapers, magazines and journals, and he has received many national and international awards.[12] [13] Sunil K. Dutt has been in the field of photography and photojournalism for more than fifty years.[13] [7] [3]

Early life and education

Sunil K. Dutt[2] was born in Kolkata on 31 December 1939. He was greatly inspired by Swami Vivekananda. His words "When you are born a man, leave some indelible mark behind you",[14] always haunted him.[15] After completing his studies from Surendranath College, Kolkata, he started writing articles for various magazines.[16]

Career

Dutt never planned of having a career in the field of photography at first. When he was writing in Dr. Karuna Mukherjee's magazine Gharani,[17] he was advised to give visual support to his writings to make the subjects more attractive. That was the starting point of his journey with photography. He started to take photographs to make his articles more attractive and later he chose it as his career and started working as a professional photographer for the rest of his life.[16] At the early stage of his career as a photographer, he was appointed to take Mother Teresa's photographs by the editor of Junior Statesman.,[18] published from Kolkata, Desmond Doig,[7] the writer of Calcutta: An Artist's Impression,[19] Mother Teresa: Her People and Her Work[20] [21] and many more books.[22] This assignment was the turning point of Dutt's career.[7]

By the end of the 1960s, a documentary was made on Mother Teresa, and in the early 1970s,[21] the first ever book on her, Something Beautiful for God[23] was published by Harper Collins (based on the documentary). It was written and undertaken by Malcolm Muggeridge with the photographs of Mother Teresa snapped by Sunil K. Dutt.[24] Dutt's pictorial book titled Kolkata Canvas[13] portrays the life of Kolkata. It has more than 100 photographs on various aspects of city and its reality. Dutt's other pictorial books are Robir Aloy Alokchitro, Durga Puja, Amay Gach Kore Dao, Shantiniketan, Mother Teresa - Down Memory Lane.[25] [26] [8] [13]

Major exhibitions

Various other activities related to photography

Awards and recognition

Pictorial books

Quotes

"Dear Sunil, God love you for the love you gave through your photos. God bless you." Mother Teresa's quote on a smiling black and white photo of hers.[7]

"From the day I first met her Mother always appeared to me a living saint in action,"."My association with Mother Teresa has impacted my life in a very big way. Whenever I think of her I feel a profound peace in the very core of my heart."[8] [49]

References

  1. Web site: Around India, camera in hand. https://web.archive.org/web/20140313094405/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140309/jsp/calcutta/story_18060206.jsp. dead. 13 March 2014.
  2. Web site: Art Events Kolkata: March–April 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20111011064748/http://www.artnewsnviews.com/view-article.php?article=art-events-kolkata-march-april-2011&iid=20&articleid=513. usurped. 11 October 2011. www.artnewsnviews.com.
  3. Web site: About the Artists – Abundant Artgallery. www.abundantartgallery.com.
  4. Web site: Abundant Art Gallery presents CONTRIVANCE and Photographer Sunil K Dutt. kouchaq c. 11 August 2017. YouTube.
  5. Web site: The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro. https://web.archive.org/web/20171112074139/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1060704/asp/calcutta/story_6431493.asp. dead. 12 November 2017. www.telegraphindia.com.
  6. 9. 'Mother Superior' – The Illustrated Weekly of India, 23–29 August edition, 1987 Page 38-43
  7. Web site: Mother comes alive in Dutt's frozen frames. 10 October 2016.
  8. Web site: Kolkata proud to claim Mother Teresa on eve of canonization. 2 September 2016.
  9. Web site: Opinion: When Mother Teresa Scored Over Hard-Nosed Bankers.
  10. 3. http://alchemypublishers.co.in/the-idea-of-kolkata/
  11. Web site: Rare photographs of Ray - Kolkata NYOOOZ. NYOOOZ. NYOOOZ.
  12. Calcutta The Lensman's Delight-The Illustrated Weekly of India, Sep 10 - 16, 1989, Page 78
  13. Web site: Alchemypublishers.co.in.
  14. Web site: VIVEKANANDA FOR YOU (ENGLISH). Satyam Roy. Chowdhury. 1 September 2016. Techno India. Google Books.
  15. Web site: KOTHAYE KOTHAYE with Sunil K Dutt telecasted on DOORDARSHAN KENDRA KOLKATA 2006. nandini ghosh. 25 August 2017. YouTube.
  16. Khash Khabar, 9 December 2001, P.55
  17. Web site: Edit -Details Displayed. rni.nic.in.
  18. Web site: The Worlds Oldest Teenagers. Himal Mag.
  19. Web site: Calcutta. www.goodreads.com.
  20. Web site: Mother Teresa by Doig, Desmond. www.biblio.com.
  21. Web site: Book review of Mother Teresa: Her People And Her Work by Desmond Doig.
  22. Web site: Desmond Doig Books, Related Products (DVD, CD, Apparel), Pictures, Bibliography, Biography, Community Discussions and more at the Desmond Doig Store. www.amazon.in.
  23. Web site: Something Beautiful for God - Malcolm Muggeridge - Paperback. Malcolm. Muggeridge. HarperCollins US.
  24. Web site: Merry Christmas! Not you, Mother Teresa. www.dailyo.in.
  25. Web site: Mother Teresa: Down Memory Lane. 19 September 1993. R. O'Brien. Google Books.
  26. Book: Mother Teresa, Down Memory Lane Text in the words of Mother Teresa. Mother. Teresa. Sunil K.. Dutt. Chairman, Citicorp/Citibank John. Reed. Derek. O'brien. 19 September 1994. Rila O'Brien. 8186033009.
  27. Web site: VICTORIA::Exhibition. www.victoriamemorial-cal.org.
  28. News: Rare photographs of Ray - Times of India. The Times of India. 17 May 2016 .
  29. Web site: Ray And The City in Kolkata, Victoria Memorial Hall - Whats Hot. Whats Hot.
  30. Web site: Photography exhibition on Saint Teresa. 5 October 2016.
  31. News: An exhibition of photographs on Mother Teresa by Sunil K Dutt will be held at Victoria Memorial Hall from March 15 to 31. The exhibition will be inaugurated by filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta on the evening of March 14. - Times of India. The Times of India. 12 March 2011 .
  32. Web site: The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Metro - Good Morning. https://web.archive.org/web/20171112073935/https://admin.telegraphindia.com/1110316/jsp/calcutta/story_13716857.jsp. dead. 12 November 2017. admin.telegraphindia.com.
  33. Web site: The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro. https://web.archive.org/web/20171112073901/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1060705/asp/calcutta/story_6435773.asp. dead. 12 November 2017. www.telegraphindia.com.
  34. Web site: The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro. https://web.archive.org/web/20171112021954/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1060703/asp/calcutta/story_6427989.asp. dead. 12 November 2017. www.telegraphindia.com.
  35. Web site: The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro. https://web.archive.org/web/20121023172732/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060703/asp/calcutta/story_6424727.asp. dead. 23 October 2012. www.telegraphindia.com.
  36. Web site: National Museum of Photography Film and Television. Tourist Information UK.
  37. Manasij Majumder. "ARTS & LEISURE:Calcutta Goes to England" Business Standard, Sunday, 13 August 1989
  38. Tapash Ganguly, "Spectrum:Calcutta, A Click in London", The Week, P.62, 6 August 1989
  39. The Illustrated Weekly of India, P.43, 17–23 December 1989
  40. The Telegraph, P. 10-11, 23 August 1987
  41. Web site: Photography Courses - Academy of Creative Art .
  42. "Camera-happy", Sunday Magazine, Amrita Bazar Patrika, 25–31 August Issue, 1985, p.62
  43. Abhijit Nag, "Passing Shots: Sunil Dutt's Calcutta", Sunday Magazine, Amrita Bazar Patrika, 23 August 1987, p.14-19
  44. Web site: Durga Puja.
  45. Web site: The Idea of Kolkata.
  46. Web site: Santiniketan: Foreword by Martin Kampchen.
  47. Web site: Mother Teresa, Down Memory Lane Text in the words of Mother Teresa book: 9788186033005.
  48. Web site: Mother Teresa: down memory lane / - University of Toronto Libraries. search.library.utoronto.ca.
  49. Web site: PICS: Mother Teresa remembered on eve of sainthood - IOL News.

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