Because eyes cannot lie and speaks everything what is unsaid, even the pain.
It holds the truth.
People hold soo much beauty within, dreams too. Every person hold different needs, different thoughts, different ideas. The basic requirement for anyone to survive is food to satisfy their hunger, clothes to cover their body and a place they can call home. Everyone has a story, some are able to share stories on their own and for some there has to be people who share their story. I felt an urge to share this story, so that people know about this man.
We cannot go all the places that exist, we cannot read all the books that exist, we cannot pluck all the flowers that exist, we cannot meet all the people that exist but everyone is under the same sky, watching the same moon and stars. And with this story I want people to meet this man and know about him through this picture.
I believe an artist always wants people to feel their art, the beauty that the art holds. And a photographer wants people to feel what they have captured and find your own story behind the picture. So my part of story goes this way.
There is a small village named KhaliPathar which is 16.963 miles away from my hometown, when I reached there it was extremely painful for me to see that there were a lot of people who didn't even have a house to live in. There I met this man. He has no place to call a home and it's not easy for four family members to live in the same quarter knowing how little that space is and to face a lot of problems day to day while still keeping a hope in the heart, patience in his mind and smile on his face. He make sure that his family suffers little to no problems and atleast be happy for the fact that they are together and can overcome anything with courage. I was very sad looking at all these, the condition of his family and whatever he was narrating me but I learnt something and I knew I was taking with me that lesson, that hope, that beauty, that patience, that courage with every person I meet and with every click and with every story that I want the world to know. He has a son who was born blind, to know that we can't see all those beautiful things that exist in this universe makes us sad but to know that someone is not able to see anything that the universe hold was unbearable for me. While he was speaking to me about all these, all I saw on his face was that he have been given this life and we have to live either being sad all the time because of the things we can't have or being happy and hopeful about the things we can do. His words, those laugh in between the conversation, those lessons, the essence of hope made me believe that no matter what we have to keep going. There are difficulties all around us and there is pain and then there is hope.
Hope is beautiful and so is the world. And we have to continue living and choose happiness everytime.
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About Artist - I am Tulsi Shankar Kumbhar, a self-taught fashion and street portrait photographer from India. I am doing street portrait photography from 2013 to the present and I am maintaining it for the long term. I will work more and capture more portraits and share the storytelling on this project "Beautiful Peoples of The World". You can connect with me on Instagram @tulsishankarphotography and see my work there for a wider perspective and understanding of my work. My photographs have been featured on some great Instagram pages like @peopleinfinity @humanpotrait @odishastreetphotography @world_photography_page and @indian.hobbygraphy
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