A WALK IN THE CLOUDS
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A WALK IN THE CLOUDS
A WALK IN THE CLOUDS PORTFOLIO BY DEEPAK CHOWDHURY VOLUME I — SEPTEMBER 2015 © 2015 Deepak Chowdhury, All Rights Reserved. A WORD... Today, Deepak’s hands, heart and imagination join in making elegant new wonders. He keeps surprising me. His works feel wholly original. They aim to copy no others. His instinct is spot on. The same “gut” that got him to leave the corporate world for a different path, has permitted us to see unfurled a large body of work that might never have been without a momentary sunrise awakening one golden morning. As Maya Angelou put it, “If one is lucky, sometimes a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” May it always be so. With admiration, Rebecca Alban Hoffberger Founder/Director American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore A WALK IN THE CLOUDS If the sky is the earth’s canvas, then clouds are the ingredients of masterful paintings. Engrossed in seemingly important matters, I hitherto paid little attention to their beauty. Now, having time on my hands, and realizing what I have missed, I frequently look up, hoping to capture yet another painting with the camera’s eye or my own. The monotony of a cloudless sky, without even the loneliest of wanderers gracing its empty canvas, is a void that I never wish to contemplate. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to shed rain or usher storm, but to give color to my sunset sky.” Rabindranath Tagore WHITE COTTON CANDY Train to Lhasa, Tibet Deepak Chowdhury, 2007 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) BLUE STROKES Santiago, Chile Deepak Chowdhury, 2007 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) BASKING IN THE SUN Chikmagalur, Karnataka, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2008 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) A LATE-SPRING AFTERNOON Hampi, Karnataka, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2008 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) COBALT BLUES OVER KATHMANDU Kathmandu, Nepal Deepak Chowdhury, 2007 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) AMAZING GRACE Miami, Florida, USA Deepak Chowdhury, 2007 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) BEYOND THE EVEREST BASE CAMP The Road from Shegar, Tibet Deepak Chowdhury, 2007 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) A TOUCH OF CHARCOAL Puerto Natales, Chile Deepak Chowdhury, 2008 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) COLORFUL CONTRASTS Puerto Natales, Chile Deepak Chowdhury, 2008 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) CREAMY DELIGHT Torres del Paine, Chile Deepak Chowdhury, 2008 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) HIDE & SEEK Domaine de Sandricourt, France Deepak Chowdhury, 2008 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) A TOUCH OF LEMON Hospet, Karnataka, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2008 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) SIMPLE PLEASURES Miami, Florida, USA Deepak Chowdhury, 2008 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) CHARCOAL OVER ORANGE Coconut Grove, Florida, USA Deepak Chowdhury, 2009 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) A WARM SUMMER EVENING Coconut Grove, Florida, USA Deepak Chowdhury, 2008 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) A FIERY AFTERGLOW Coconut Grove, Florida, USA Deepak Chowdhury, 2008 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) STRIPED SUNRISE Magellan Straits, Tierra del Fuego, Chile Deepak Chowdhury, 2008 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) EVENING BLUSH Miami, Florida, USA Deepak Chowdhury, 2008 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) RUSTY SUNSET Darjeeling, West Bengal, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2008 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) DESERT PINK Pushkar, Rajasthan, India Deepak Chowdhury, 2010 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) BEFORE THE TWILIGHT Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Deepak Chowdhury, 2010 Limited Edition Large Format: Image Size - 31” x 45” (790 mm x 1,140 mm); Paper Size - 33” x 46” (840 mm x 1,170 mm) ABOUT THE ARTIST Deepak Chowdhury was born in India into an army family, and spent his early years at Mayo College, a boarding school in Rajasthan, then received a B.A. from St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai. Leaving India for the first time in 1979, he spent two years as a management trainee in England, prior to obtaining an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and settling in New York to commence a career in financial services. In 1997, Deepak joined Legg Mason, an asset management company headquartered in Baltimore, where he spent the next decade in a variety of senior management roles. Deepak left his professional career in 2007 to explore areas of passion that were outside the corporate world, and he found it in travel and photography. The breadth of Deepak’s photographic interests span a range of subjects, such as clouds, graffiti, temple art, ancient erotic sculpture, and the truck art of South Asia. He is also an ardent photographer of village life in India, which he primarily captures while traveling by car, his preferred mode of transport in the country. Deepak has also begun exploring the area of composite art, which thoughtfully incorporates and combines his diverse range of photographic interests. This includes his portfolio titled “Impermanence,” which brings together images of clouds and graffiti from all over the world. He has recently added a series titled “Boundless,” which pays homage to the wondrously colorful style of the women in the towns and villages of India. DEEPAK CHOWDHURY 15131 Wheeler Ln., Sparks, MD, USA Mobile: (410) 812-1003 Email: dchowdhury@mac.com Websites Photographic Art www.deepakchowdhury.com www.deepakchowdhury.com