Souptik Datta

The world is a crazy place and two things fascinate me most:

1) Finding great stories.

2) Giving them a voice and a shape.

Stories are omnipresent. For instance, when I am walking down the street, my senses are constantly scanning the surroundings, looking for potential stories. I remember I joined Tinder once to hunt down stories. Well, that ended awkwardly, but I did get one fascinating narrative. To acknowledge what drives a great story is probably my curiosity. Asking "Why?" is plausibly the most prominent thing I have learned over time.

Once I smell a story, it's time to give it an outline. Today there are different structures of languages available to us. I look up to Photography, Filmmaking, and Writing to voice the newly found story. The capability to write, photograph and edit all by myself gives me a boost of an inherent singularity. Often the idea culminates in a mixed-media, where all contribute to a particular outcome, of a well-shaped truth. Storytelling is not magic, but simple neurology of Who, What and Why.

"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon."