I have been born and brought up in this city, so i love Pune from the bottom of my heart...i have so many memories about the city...and i truly miss the old pune, the pune that many of you may have missed. While growing up here, all pune was famous for was for being a quiet hillstation. The temperatures barely rose over 30 degrees.Ahh...The good old daysPune was known as a pensioners' paradise...today it's a burgeoning mini metropolis. It was considered as a preferred holiday destination for so many Mumbaiites, who came here to take a breather from their hectic schedules and the fast pace of life. The weather resembled that of a hill station.
Pune was the ultimate holiday destination to get a respite from the sveltering heat. Today, the mercury levels are rising with every passing year.
I was 15yrs old thts exactly after my 9th std exams.
I attended some photography workshops.i went on many trips
N dat was the tym when i started enjoying it. I use to wish tht the holidays wont get over ever. Travel the word itself excites u sooo much for many adventures. , scenic beauties, n many more amazing things.
My interest towards choosing travel as a career begin from then.
For me actually Travelling is an appealing experience. It's an ideal way to leave your current life behind to pursue a more relaxing or adventurous break, or to live in and explore a new place. The experience of travel is commonly about venturing out there and bringing back experiences to share. There is this kind of role behind travelling that involves recording the experiences that are different from your common, home life.
I have a belief that the reason for, or the result of travelling, is to open your eyes; to explore and see what is not normally seen in the daily drive to and from work. Does it help you to see better, with more detail, with interest in something different, especially once you have returned home to view the pretty, photographic snap shots of your experiences? Which is more important, the experience of your holiday, or the images to be studied and shared with family and friends at the end? The evidence of something different. As Roland Barthes describes in Camera Lucida, 'The photograph is never anything but an antiphon of "Look", "See". "Here it is": it points a finger at certain vis a vis, and cannot escape this pure deictic language" p.5 (1982). Photographs are better studied by an individual when they have a subjective reality and recognition in the mind. The objects photographed on travels are commonly mimicking postcards and guide book compositions to show that they know what to do on a holiday, or simply objects of difference from the norm.
This foreign experience of travelling to experience different cultures is what I'm exploring in this project, through the perspective of the gaze. The perception of feeling interested in common objects of another culture, simply because they have the markings of another culture. As Alain de Botton tells in 'The Art of Travel' where he describes a sign he sees when getting off a plane in Amsterdam "Despite its simplicity. Even mundanity, the sign delights me, a delight for which the adjective 'exotic', though unusual, seems apt. The exoticism is located in particular areas: in the double a of Aankomst, in the neighbourliness of a u and an i in Uitgang, in the use of English subtitles..." he goes on to describe 'if the sign provokes such pleasure, it is in part because it offers the first conclusive evidence of having arrived elsewhere. It is a symbol of abroad.' p.67 (2002). The object of a sign is not a distinctive item to the casual eye, and common in many cultures, yet the differences are unique to the country that it is created in, it has a presence of another culture and mindset. All sorts of common objects around different countries can tell us more than there intended meaning; they can speak of the nation that created it.
Seeming to b loving these cultures n places
Nw travelling has been my dream.
Next part would be updated soon!
Wid the beginning of awesome journeys my life.
Till thn Cya...
