Whenever he came across books, newspapers or magazines whatcaught Saurabh Dalvi’s attention were images and photographs. After a point, herealised that he didn’t feature in any of the photographs taken during familyfunctions or trips with friends. This was because he was always behind thecamera. Eventually, Saurabh came to terms with his thoughts and voluntarilydropped out of engineering to pursue what he was passionate about --photography -- as a full-time career.
After spending five years in this field, Saurabh feels thatphotography is a line that can be learnt best on-field. However, he attended ashort course on photography to familiarize himself with the technicalitiesinvolved in photography.
But this education didn’t seem enough, so he approached thephotographer he looked up to. “I sent across some of my work to GautamRajadhyaksha along with a note. Gautam sir, appreciated my work and invited meto his studio. This was an amazing opportunity that transported me from Goa toMumbai “ the city of dreams,” he says.
After coming to Mumbai, Saurabh engaged himself withfreelance projects. “Freelancing lets me have the time I want out for me to thinkand be myself, this in turn is important for any artist to come along with newideas and an improved vision,” he says.
Saurabh currently shoots fashion, lifestyle, portraiture andcommercial, but recently, he has also ventured into creative event photography.His aim is to capture every event with the right amount of reality in it. Inthis way, he gives his clients good images plus a memory to cherish. “Realityis my style! I’d rather show what is real than process what isn’t. Somehow Ihave always preferred the candid style images even for fashion andportraitures. This adds more of a natural look to what I try describing throughmy work,” Saurabh says explaining how his photographs are worth a 1000 words.
According to Saurabh, Photoshop is a secondary tool forphotographers. “We cannot avoid the use of Photoshop for commercial work butuse of Photoshop for personal work should be avoided,” he asserts. The keychallenge this young photographer faces is the editing process. “Editingphotographs is challenging. I try my level best to satisfy my clients withminimal editing for commercial advertisement work.”
Talking about photography and its evolution in Goa, Saurabhfeels that there is a tremendous scope for this profession in his home town.
