The translation (With help of Google) follows:-
The Indian photographer of the everyday
Exhibitions: Prashant Rana, who is doing a doctorate in journalism at UMA, exhibits his photos and of other colleagues in the ice cream parlor 'Canela en Rama'.
by: Claudia San Martin
Years of traveling around the world, of immersion in communities totally unknown to the global eye, and of realities yet to be discovered have led him to be the photographer of the frozen time. Prashant Rana (1985) left his native India more years ago than he remembers. His search for new stories, which he tells through his Photography, made it very easy for him to make the world his home, even those places most hostile to the visitor.
In India, he studied geography at the University of New Delhi, then he traveled to Sweden to study photojournalism, and now in Malaga, he exhibits his creativity in a doctorate in journalism that opens more doors than he thought. SUR knows him through the Fernando González Photographic Marathon, participating accompanied by the photography group he has formed in the city; more than just companions of passion, now they are friends who go out every weekend to photograph, through a card game that Prashant himself invented, the mysterious and, often ignored, corners of Malaga.
When this photographer reviews his career, it leaves anyone speechless while hearing the story of Kirtimai, a very small and hidden place in Lithuania where he did the project for three months with a community of gypsies; or his exploration in the Sundarbans forest, in Bangladesh (Correction - INDIA), where more than 400 wild tigers live with humans: The people who live there know that they are the food of the tiger, and for them, if this animal kills a man it is normal and accept it as part of nature, "he says.
The Lithuanian project was for this expert photographer a sudden blow to reality. He says that after spending so many days in this community
It affected him too much to see how, living so far from society, children were affected by not having an education and all the injustices day-to-day. He explains that they lack electricity and drinking water, so the schooling of the little ones in the village is not a priority. In that same country, he also visited the city of Visaginas, where until 2009 its nuclear plant was the work activity of all the families in the area. Above all: poverty, exclusion, weirdness, reality, but also joy, Rana has been preparing extensive projects that he can now proudly boast about: I like to do long projects, not just as press photos that are forgotten at the moment; I prefer to do more in-depth research and look for the roots, why does that happen and how can I connect with that part of the world, ”he explains.
On his Instagram, @prashan trana_official, he displays that photographic sincerity so characteristic and soulful, but also the snapshots he takes with his group of friends, colleagues by profession, and fans of an exciting universe that must be watched with admiring eyes. Currently, the ice cream parlor 'Canela en Rama' in Huelin hosts his new exhibition Visions, which he shares with nine more colleagues from his group and which invites everyone to go on a walk through Malaga with great sensitivity and charisma, a series of images in movement that is captured in the perfect moment.
Despite the fact that his works have been presented through exhibition halls in countries such as Sweden, the United Kingdom, India, Lithuania, and now Spain. Rana has made Malaga his home for an unlimited time, although this cosmopolitan does let himself be guided by photography and wherever it takes him.
The article can be read in Spanish at the website of Diario Sur here - https://www.diariosur.es/culturas/fotografo-hindu-cotidiano-20210516222841-nt.html#vca=fixed-btn&vso=rrss&vmc=wh&vli=Culturas