ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The Face Value

This is an image, which is a part of a conceptual series, The face value. Which depicts the superficial appearance or implication of something which has an intrinsic value. Like the existence of the nature and the human beings are underestimated with the artificial virtual world. In the name of modernization, the real world is dissipating in the existence of the unreal world.

The technique that is used to make this image is double exposure. It is an incorporation of a human portrait (taken with studio portrait lighting) and a cityscape (Long exposure). The image is taken in Los Angeles.

AUTHOR
Nilangana Banerjee (Olive) is a Los Angeles based photographer, born in Mumbai, India. She currently lives in Los Angeles and holds a Master of Fine Art in Photography. She completed her Bachelors in Still Photography and Audio Visual Production in Mumbai, India and her first Masters degree is in Commercial Photography from Ooty, India. She started photography as her profession, due to her intense passion for the medium since childhood. Her exposure to photography started as a toddler under the influence of her father who shot 35mm film for prints. Her academic degrees in photography have created a deep conviction towards her photographic ambition. After her schooling she had specialized in Industrial, Architectural and Interior, Portraiture and Conceptual Fashion Photography. She mastered the science and art of the photographic world under the guidance of eminent stalwarts in the field of photography. During her academic studies and as a commercial photographer, her work has been given immense praise and appreciation from reputed photographic institutions, companies and magazines. In 2016, she was featured in the VICE Magazine, for her shooting of the LA based Middle Eastern Fusion food event, BIRDS. She also got featured in a book for being the principal photographer and stylist for, The Paleosecret, in 2017. Her photographs were also a part of the most reputed global photographic exhibitions and galleries in and around Los Angeles, Portland including New York, Brooklyn at the Photoville 2017. She had also got the taste of working in the food and beverage industry in LA, by commercially shooting for many big food chains/brands, food magazines, conceptual fashion projects and portraiture in US. In concert to her technical expertise, she has also nurtured cultural pursuits in music: vocal, instrumental and painting.

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