Sunil Dutt

Sunil K. Dutt (born 31 December 1939) is an Indian photographer and photojournalist.

Dutt is known as the photo chronicler of Mother Teresa's life and work for more than thirty years till her death in 1997. He is also known as a chronicler of Calcutta and its many moods for his vignettes of life in Kolkata, India. Sunil K. Dutt has been in the field of photography and photojournalism for more than fifty years. always haunted him. After completing his studies from Surendranath College, Kolkata, he started writing articles for various magazines.

Career Dutt never planned of having a career in the field of photography at first. When he was writing in Dr. Karuna Mukherjee's magazine Gharani', he was advised to give visual support to his writings to make the subjects more attractive. That was the starting point of his journey with photography. He started to take photographs to make his articles more attractive and later he chose it as his career and started working as a professional photographer for the rest of his life. published from Kolkata, Desmond Doig, Mother Teresa: Her People and Her Work and many more books. This assignment was the turning point of Dutt's career. was published by Harper Collins (based on the documentary). It was written and undertaken by Malcolm Muggeridge with the photographs of Mother Teresa snapped by Sunil K. Dutt. Dutt's pictorial book titled Kolkata Canvas 2016 Mother Teresa - photography (Black and white) by Sunil Dutt at Savio Hall at Shillong 2015 Rabir Aloye Alokchitra (Photographs in the Light of Tagore's most popular songs and poems) - Gaganendra Pradarshashala, Kolkata 2011 Mother Teresa – Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata Bradford, London . 1987 On Calcutta – Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata. 1981 On Awareness of Spastic Children – Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 1973 Calcutta Calcutta - Alliance française, French Government Consulate, Kolkata

Various other activities related to photography Taught as visiting faculty in different institutions and universities. Some of them are University of Calcutta, Visvabharati, Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) etc. 1987 Selected Dutt as one of the ten "best photojournalists of the world" by Photographic Society of America. 1985 The Ito Ryoji Memorial Prize for the photograph entitled Even now so happy in the 10th Asia and the Pacific 1985 Photo Contest organized by The Asian Cultural Centre for UNESCO, Tokyo 2005 Kolkata Canvas published by Alchemy Publishers 1998 Classic India Santiniketan published in five International languages (English, French, German, Spanish and Italian) by Rupa Publications 1997 Amay Gach Kore Dao published by Gupta Press publishers 1993 Mother Teresa: down memory lane [editor, Derek O'Brien] published by Big Ideas / 1971 Something Beautiful For God'' published by Harper Collins, London

Quotes "Dear Sunil, God love you for the love you gave through your photos. God bless you." Mother Teresa's quote on a smiling black and white photo of hers.