The monster inside us

portrait of om prakash varma with mud on his face letting out a scream of monstrous rage

Om Prakash Varma | Trivandrum, Kerala, India | 2010

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114 Responses to The monster inside us

  1. Aaahhhh! Now that’s more like the Danny I know! This is fabulous and yes, in some small part of each and every one of us…… resides ‘THE MONSTER’! Love it! Thank you for coming back to being the ace photographer that you are! Keep it up and God bless…… :)

  2. my god!!this is brilliant!!

  3. Hehehehe…it’s THE OPTI MAN :D In his case, you should have titled this “The monster beside us” :P
    What’s he got on his face? Multani mitti??? Guess you caught him red handed doing a facial :D :D That explains te fury ;)

    Jokes apart…
    Amazing one. Love the lighting. :)

  4. Wow. Is that clay on him ? Or heena ? :/

  5. awesome concept and work…. this time it shows a different side of human character … the little monster that hides in everyone of us …. nice piece of work :)

  6. btw OM is the right person for this experiment :) hehehe guess you didnt have to do much to bring out the monster :P

  7. Amazing .. crisp and sharp

  8. Yes, everyone has that part inside … I would kill if somebody would touch my loved ones ;) Fantastic portrait, very powerful Daniel!

  9. Awesome… Btw what happened to his face?? make-up ???

  10. Good Lord! This is brilliant!
    Would be nice to know how you shot it though.. Planned shot or what?

  11. oh. man..awesome

  12. Expression et photos impressionnante. Beau travail.

  13. Whoaaa – ein Portrait das wirkt – genial !!

  14. Gopalakrishnan

    Good theme! Your magic with lights deosnt require a special mention. Class snap! Bw. Good that you had pushed him into mud. Thank you!

  15. Hello:)
    Sometimes we are monsters,yes,and sometimes it`s worries we yell out to someone.

    The light that`s shine,is beautiful
    MT/marie

  16. i suppose you allow the subject the freedom of expression and you capture the apt moment ….kewl JD..nice lighting… could have edited a serpent toungue out of his mouth ;)

  17. Fabulous!!!

  18. Soman alias

    Great work dude!!! Without make-up ?

    Wonderful lighting.. After all a brilliant creation…. :-)

  19. But it’s less like the Ommen I know.

    Great photo though! Good work

  20. awesome!!!!

  21. ahhh Scary.. i guess that’s how its ment to be, else it wud’nt be expression of Monster within us. But lovely light effect, was it in a play ?

  22. incrdible face! interesting concempt and title

  23. picture made me tilt my head …good :)

  24. WOW! Fantastic work of art!!

  25. Amazing exposure! Surrealistic to the core. Great work.

  26. Astonishing capture! Nice usage of light to enhance texture.

  27. great job great portrayal only one thing Joshi I hope the teeth coming out much clearer.

  28. Simple fantastic
    Stunning shot

  29. That is sccaaaryyyyyyyy !

    wow !

  30. that is one scary picture i almost flinch once the picture is loaded on my screen! nice lighting tho :)

  31. Terrific shot and interpretation.

  32. Absolutely a powerful and dramatic image. Excellent creative work.

  33. OMG…you are scaring me..:( I don’t have any monster inside me..kinda clean lol jokes apart brilliant image..very creative!! GJ

  34. very intense..great job!

  35. woww…terrific yaar….om & u seem hav just back after seeing “RAAVAN” the movie is a flopp,,,,but as usual JD photography is a hit..hey u hav succeeded in capturing the evil within every person in d shot

  36. Impressive shot Joshi, …. superbe lighting.

  37. We sure all have at least one ;) Good to let him shout sometimes….. Superb is your frame & your light (always !)

  38. Aptly caught image.

  39. Daniel this one is a masterpiece!!!!! marvelous

  40. wonderful!! v creative

  41. mr daniel you got so many appreciations already! what can i add? but i have understood one thing that where X-RAY fails to catch.you succeed! keep edging your lences.

  42. fantastic light and capture

  43. wow what can i say powerful photo! awesome lighting..

  44. A superb photograph that here, which deserves 5 stars, well with you.

  45. Amazing portrait! It is absolutely incredible and so intense. i love it!

  46. WOW this blue me away, simply fantastic in every way

  47. THis is sick!!! Love it.

  48. Is everyone of you all a photographer? I don’t understand whether you are praising the shades of the lighting, or the subject, cause I am unable to understand the subject. And me not being a professional photographer, cannot comment on the illumination. It does look good to my untrained eyes, I must say though.

  49. wow, this is amazing!!! is that a statue, or did you put makeup on someone? totally scary shot!!!

  50. Impressive image. Very imaginative and nicely done.

  51. My! What’s up with his face? Shocking!

  52. Very dramatic picture with this lightning.

  53. …the monster in us seems to be scary !!
    Beautiful light n framing !

  54. A very impressive portraitl ! Congratulations !!! :)

  55. une horreur bien mise en lumiere : superbe !

  56. An image that portrays the monster within us. Fabulous Daniel.

  57. Brilliance written all over it… Awesome!!

    Pixellicious Photos

  58. Awesome shot with fantastic textures and details.

  59. Interesting…

    Layers asking to be unfold; to derive a myriad of meanings from…

  60. Vinod Moorthy

    Superb dude!!!! I am telling ya! Its Gr8!

  61. good work! thanks for promoting my post on indivine.

  62. Very thought-provoking!

  63. Wow, an interesting image

  64. Haunting and completely original joshi! WOW!

  65. Shockingly its very unique picture !
    Makeup did a good job but the Photography needs an applaud too !

  66. Impressive, scary, strong … well this image has it all! Cool! Nice work again my friend.

  67. Oh my! This is just amazing…the light rocks, man.

  68. OMG! who is that and how?

  69. Truely Awesome

  70. Amazing light. Great drama in your images. Thanks for your kind words about the exhibition. A lot of press inquires. Has been a lot of interesting people to speak to. Start putting up more stuff from Nagasaki soon.

    Paule
    http://www.paulepictures.com
    http://www.paulepictures.com/blog

  71. Super. Wonder what’s the story behind the picture…

  72. Just terribly beautiful, something like the death angel is passing…

  73. Really crazy image…too cool! Fantastic idea and processing!

  74. Alain Alexandre

    Photo character

  75. Oh my! Interesting… and a great shot.
    This image deserves a place in one of those character analysis movies that hit the likes of oscar awards.

  76. impressive lightning … great job

  77. What an impressive skin texture

  78. Holy crap!!! Man! This is so very different! Cool! Good lighting! I can see light coming straight from down too! So white light from up and yellow from down huh?? This is called detail man!!!

  79. impressionnant !

  80. Fabulous !!! nice portrait !!

  81. njerippu. and that goes for Om too. :D

  82. Awesome shot of the light fantastic, amazing picture. Bravo!!

  83. Woooowwwwwww!!! Spectacular!

  84. Awesome Joshi.. Finally we have something out of OM…

  85. uuaah! What’s on his face? Awesome shot

  86. Wow! Really awesome Joshi, congrats!

  87. Wow! this is absolutel beauty

  88. Excellent lighting on that

  89. excellent photo… the contours well captured…

  90. Wow!!! Excellent work!!!

  91. awesome photo, simply amazing!

  92. A stunning , disturbing image, i hope this is photoshop creativity and not a really sad subject :-(

  93. My goodness; the light and texture here are amazing. Fantastic capture, Joshi.

  94. walkinginstillness

    When one who holds a lot of pain and then sees the light, a lot of the unprocessed feelings of the past begin to come rushing out to be released.

  95. Wow! Simply stunning! Very emotive!

  96. Powerful. Masterful. Mindful!

  97. Excellent shot ! Amazing lighting process too !

  98. Texturally spectacular.

  99. wow what an incredible image. I adore the light and shade, so powerful and emotional!

  100. très impressionnant, une émotion brute

  101. ah…the agony and ecstasy!
    Splendid…

  102. Great portrait. Very creative and unusual! Congrat!

  103. Sir, would like to post this photo on my blog.
    Request your permission.

  104. there is just an amazing wildness about this shot here.!

  105. eeeeeeewwwwwww!!

    in a good way ofcourse…but eeeew!

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