Photography – Toronto
Abhijit a.k.a. Eternal Happiness™ is a documentary photojournalist and a self-published author of the first multimedia book on the little-known Indigenous Toto tribe of India.
He has been a photojournalist for The Globe and Mail in Toronto, The Times Of India, The Indian Express in Mumbai and Utrop in Oslo.
Abhijit also visually documents the works and projects of various humanitarian organizations and NGOs on their project sites and creates human interest visual stories on various topics.
He has worked in Havana (Cuba), Toronto (Canada), Oslo (Norway), Greece and India with over 10 years of experience in visual documentation.
Some of his major highlights are:
photo-documented the work of Beyond Roots, a Havana based small enterprise focussed on Afro-Cuban history and experiences relating to Yoruba culture and spirituality (awaiting some fact-checking on the images made),
being in Greece during COVID wave-2 to photo-video document the works of Dråpen i Havet,
multimedia documentation of the Red Cross in the frontline rebel areas of India and
selected as as a Contract Photographer with the United Nations Development Programme .
Furthering his photo-documenting journey, Abhijit would like to continue being a photo and a video journalist at an international desk in news/wire agencies. At the same time visually document the projects of NGOs/organizations and humanitarian organizations on their project sites.
He also wants to work with sociological and anthropological departments of universities to visually document the Indigenous communities around the world.
Abhijit is trilingual and knows four other languages (including American Sign Language) in between 20 and 70%. He is a survivor of racism, extreme discrimination and is a double immigrant, from India (SE Asia) to Norway (EU) to Canada (Americas).
Currently, Abhijit is based in Toronto, Canada working on his second photo-book project and is available worldwide for visual documentation of different human interest narratives.
For commissioned assignments, you can reach Abhijit via his e-mail : [email protected]