B. S. Shivaraju (Cop Shiva) at Chobi Mela VII

Photo by B.S. Shivaraju (Cop Shiva)
Photo by B.S. Shivaraju (Cop Shiva)

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B. S. Shivaraju (Cop Shiva)
B. S. Shivaraju AKA Cop Shiva is a policeman in real life and learnt photography to document events. He started his photography career by being a part of an alternative art collective called 1.SHANHTIROAD STUDIO/GALLERY.?His work on Bagadehalli Basavaraj as a Gandhi impersonator is an ongoing project that looks at Gandhi?s ideals in contemporary India. His portfolio includes a series of intimate portraits of urban migrants, people of alternative sexuality, street performers and others living in the hinterland of urban and rural conflict. Shiva continues to capture the diversity of humans who live on the edge and represent the spirit of our times.
Visit Cop Shiva?s website:?http://www.lightstalkers.org/cop-shiva

Author: Shahidul Alam

Time Magazine Person of the Year 2018. A photographer, writer, curator and activist, Shahidul Alam obtained a PhD in chemistry before switching to photography. His seminal work “The Struggle for Democracy” contributed to the removal of General Ershad. Former president of the Bangladesh Photographic Society, Alam set up the Drik agency, Chobi Mela festival and Pathshala, South Asian Media Institute, considered one of the finest schools of photography in the world. Shown in MOMA New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Royal Albert Hall and Tate Modern, Alam has been guest curator of Whitechapel Gallery, Winterthur Gallery and Musee de Quai Branly. His awards include Mother Jones, Shilpakala Award and Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dali International Festival of Photography. Speaker at Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Oxford and Cambridge universities, TEDx, POPTech and National Geographic, Alam chaired the international jury of the prestigious World Press Photo contest. Honorary Fellow of Royal Photographic Society, Alam is visiting professor of Sunderland University in UK and advisory board member of National Geographic Society. John Morris, the former picture editor of Life Magazine describes his book “My journey as a witness”, (listed in “Best Photo Books of 2011” by American Photo), as “The most important book ever written by a photographer.”

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