Ayan Khasnabis was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He started his career with one of the most respected IT vendors of the world. Currently he is working with one of the biggest financial institute as a credit risk analyst.
Inspite of his busy schedule he loves walking down the streets with his camera. Street photography being one of his main areas of interest he loves to spend time on streets, alleyways of small towns and villages and loves to study the daily life of people in activities.
Conference calls and meetings may be a part of his daily schedule; but often he switches his phone off and hits the road alone. Travel and people photography naturally became his favourites in this process. Apart from photography, outdoor activities like trekking, rock climbing are some of his favourite pastimes.Big bazaar stole my photograph :(
Big bazaar, one of the largest retail chains in India stole one of my favourite photographs and used it on banners and posters for promotion during Durga puja.
My photograph here -
Just on an odd evening, I was browsing internet and checking my orkut account after months. My friend pinged me and congratulated saying that my photograph got hugely publicized. Soon after it came as a shock. I never thought that a company like this can do such cheap things. Within a day or two I started getting lot of phone calls and photographs, videos etc as proof from my friends from all over the country. The photograph is of my mother and I captured that on the eve of Durga puja. It had won a number of competitions earlier. I never thought that I would use for any commercial purpose but this valueless people just did a cheap business.
I posted the event on my photo blog and sent a notice by my lawyer to them. Within days, some guy from their marketing team visited my house and started the usual craps.
I initially thought that I would teach them a lesson but later realized that the whole matter only made me sick, nothing better. I was in fact getting full of hatred for those people; then stopped chasing them.
Some of the banners here -
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- 02.06.10 / 1pm
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