About Sucheta Das
Sucheta Das is the director of “Images Redefined Photography Institute” and has working experience last 24 years with Reuters International news agency, Gulf News, Dubai, and Associated Press (AP).
Sucheta won around 63 International and national awards including the World Press Photo Golden Eye award, National Geography Award, and others….
Her pictures have appeared in famous national and international vernacular dailies including Time, Washington Post, London Times, and others.
Her work has been selected as “Best Photographer of 2011” at World Photographic Club in the UK in the year 2012. Her image had been selected picture for a book, the best of Reuter’s photography “The Art of Seeing 2” and one of the cover pictures for Reuters 150 years Magazine.
She had done over 160 exhibitions all over the world. She published her own books.
What are Sucheta Das some greatest milestones in her life journey?
In the year 2000 when Sucheta Das just started her career in the national daily newspaper as a freelancer, she was covering flood, after publishing those images she got the call from Reuters News Agency and after an interview, she joined the are, it was first to break in her life. After that when she was working on a human interest project “Arsenic “for 1st national media grant and she got World Press Photo Golden Eye Award which was the greatest milestone in her life journey. In between, she worked in Gulf News. After quitting Gulf she came to India and joined Associated Press (AP). She worked on several human interest stories and got awards. But the World press award introduced her world in front of the world first time.
What is the learning from the challenges Sucheta Das has faced and how did she overcome them?
Being a female photojournalist she has faced a lot of obstruction in her life. Getting opportunities for big assignments, getting the proper equipment, getting tough abroad assignments everything was very difficult for her, only because she was a lady. But by heart, she is very bold-minded and determined. She never refused any assignments in any situation, so opportunities, at last, came into her life. Her photos were published all over the world in all prestigious newspapers and magazines.
She is working for the last 24 years in the international News field, but her main target from the year 2004 is to work on human interest stories for deprived people of society and to highlight their problems through her image in front of the world. She feels extremely happy when her image gives any solution to those deprived people.
She strongly believes in some principles in life, which she will suggest for newcomers also. They have to maintain some ethics in photography, they will never disturb anyone’s dignity during a shoot, they will not do any behavior which hurt their subject, they will be hundred percent honest for their shoot, they will never arrange anything artificially, lastly, they will show only the real thing, their shooting must not be influenced by any political party.
