BOUNDLESS PORTFOLIO BY DEEPAK CHOWDHURY VOLUME I SEPTEMBER 2015 2015 Deepak Chowdhury, All Rights Reserved.
A WORD... Today, Deepak s hands, heart and imagination join in making elegant new wonders. He keeps surprising me. His works feel wholly original. They aim to copy no others. His instinct is spot on. The same gut that got him to leave the corporate world for a different path, has permitted us to see unfurled a large body of work that might never have been without a momentary sunrise awakening one golden morning. As Maya Angelou put it, If one is lucky, sometimes a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. May it always be so. With admiration, Rebecca Alban Hoffberger Founder/Director American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore
BOUNDLESS At birth, she may be abandoned because she is not of the right gender. As a child, she may be deprived of an education because her future does not require it. As a girl, she may be subject to incest or rape, because the odds make it likely. As a young woman, she is married into a family of her parents choosing because it is the tradition. As a mother, she raises her children, organizes meals, and labors the fields because it is her calling. Despite the odds, she rises above; despite the persecution, she perseveres. Who is she? She is the rural Indian woman, the mother of India, and the backbone of the nation. This art portfolio celebrates these inspirational women, capturing their spirit, strength, dedication and character through their personal style a fashion that is timeless, and without boundaries because it is not dependent on wealth. The color of their garb is remarkable; the grace with which it is worn, beyond compare.
FOR THE LOVE OF A WOMAN Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2012
A NEW WORLD Somewhere in Pennsylvania, USA Deepak Chowdhury, 2013
A VIEW FROM THE TOP Somewhere in Maryland, USA Deepak Chowdhury, 2013
PALACE OF DREAMS Somewhere in Rajasthan, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2012
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TREE OF LIFE Deepak Chowdhury, 2013 WINTER COLOR Deepak Chowdhury, 2013 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 28 x 45 (710 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 30 x 46 (760 mm x 1,170 mm)
PARADISE FOUND Ladakh, Kashmir, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2015
SUMMER S BOUNTY Ladakh, Kashmir, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2015
WOMAN IN RED Ladakh, Kashmir, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2015
PARADISE FOUND (FULL LENGTH) Ladakh, Kashmir, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2015 SUMMER S BOUNTY (FULL LENGTH) Ladakh, Kashmir, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2015 Please Enquire about Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size WOMAN IN RED (FULL LENGTH) Ladakh, Kashmir, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2015
THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE Ladakh, Kashmir, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2010
GARDEN PATCH Ladakh, Kashmir, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2010
HEAVEN CAN WAIT Ladakh, Kashmir, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2011
SKY HIGH Ladakh, Kashmir, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2011
ABOUT THE ARTIST Deepak Chowdhury was born in India into an army family, and spent his early years at Mayo College, a boarding school in Rajasthan, then received a B.A. from St. Xavier s College in Mumbai. Leaving India for the first time in 1979, he spent two years as a management trainee in England, prior to obtaining an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and settling in New York to commence a career in financial services. In 1997, Deepak joined Legg Mason, an asset management company headquartered in Baltimore, where he spent the next decade in a variety of senior management roles. Deepak left his professional career in 2007 to explore areas of passion that were outside the corporate world, and he found it in travel and photography. The breadth of Deepak s photographic interests span a range of subjects, such as clouds, graffiti, temple art, ancient erotic sculpture, and the truck art of South Asia. He is also an ardent photographer of village life in India, which he primarily captures while traveling by car, his preferred mode of transport in the country. Deepak has also begun exploring the area of composite art, which thoughtfully incorporates and combines his diverse range of photographic interests. This includes his portfolio titled Impermanence, which brings together images of clouds and graffiti from all over the world. The portfolio titled Boundless pays homage to the wondrously colorful style of the women in the towns and villages of India. DEEPAK CHOWDHURY 15131 Wheeler Ln., Sparks, MD, USA Mobile: (410) 812-1003 Email: dchowdhury@mac.com Websites Photographic Art www.deepakchowdhury.com www.deepakchowdhury.com