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India is a country full of much variety and flavor. Hence it would be a sin not to make documentaries over here. Okay, that might be a bit of an exaggeration! But you get our point. All of its streets, shops, people and their means of livelihood are highly varied. Hence it is very important that we document and show all of this variety in lifestyles. And the only way to do this is through documentary film making! That is why we at FLUX will soon offer new documentary film making courses. These are going to be unique documentary courses for the multi-cultural country that India is. However, the documentary industry at this point in India is not very established or organized. There aren’t any proper documentary filmmaking companies or equipment rental spaces. And by introducing documentary film making course as an option, we need to organize this sector a bit more. The idea of documentary filmmaking is full of excitement. It has a sense of freshness and community-hood in it. These all ar...

A documentary photography course is very different from a controlled photo shoot environment. In this sort of a setup, one has to be open to the idea of ‘emergence’. Let us take you through a few of the insightful and technical ideas of documentary photography. In documentary photography, you cannot force a frame. One cannot make things happen. There is also a stream called observational documentary work. This basically asks you to observe reality and then when something arises or emerges, you can document it. It also asks you to allow reality to compose your frame. But one has to be patient enough to let things emerge. In fact that is what we mean by the idea of emergence. But when the frame becomes alive and emerges, one also has to be aware enough to click it. And when the frame is clicked, one shouldn’t look at it with critical eyes. Rather the beauty of documentary photography is that it is raw and real. It isn’t constructed. Therefore, to accept these small glitches as part of th...