It was back then, last may-June we remember, what struggling days those were! Photography was limited only to Professionals and it took great efforts for amateurs to get to them, so it was then that The Idea of our sweet "Little" Club came into Sagar Kolhe's mind. He thought why should such an art be limited to people who already know it, and why shouldn't it be spread to people who Wanted to know it !!So this Group Actually started with just few Members, and I remember our 1st Photo walk to Ramshez comprised of just 10 people ! And the amount unexpectedly increased to 37 in the consecutive Photo walk to Meri, if seen in today's date, we already have members more than 120 or so. Well it's not just matter of figures, it is more of reaching a summit and realising "Gosh ! That was far" moreover, the best part of being in this group is, "There is NO Hierarchy in this group", no one's designated higher than anyone, the Members learn the art through other members who sometime had been there in their spot !Well people reading about us in the newspaper or coming to us at present day must be thinking what an Established Group of Photographers it is, but like an Ice berg only one tenth of total struggle is seen...In our Initial days, when we needed that support, that guidance, there weren't much of people with us, which indeed put us down, but not Forever !Sagar knew his plan of uniting all the Artists in Nasik will work, and members believed in him.Sagar has this strange yet releasable Concept that let it not just be about Photography, and introduced many more, I'd rather say almost all artists in the group. There are Orators, Blog Writers, Dancers, Singers, Directors, Rangoli Artists, Painters and what not Sagar has Created a whole Army of Artists !!
When it came to what this Group can best be named... There were hurricanes in their heads... Sagar & Harshal thought all sorts of names... As in relating to camera parts and what not, finally getting fed up, these guys did some browsing and realised a peculiarity, no group was yet named after any number, sand almost everyone is aged around 21 or so.. And it's an universally Accepted Lucky number, so why not go for it ?!(And coincidentally the date that day was 21st June)So like this it was then after more thinking officially launched on 24th June 2015
Once the group was formed, Sagar thought of taking it to an altogether New Level by introducing An Photography Exhibition.For that since Sagar, didn't even had Person vehicles, travelled Everywhere in Public Transports and conducted almost 48-49 meetings in search of Sponsorship, as money was a great issue, no one amongst the Club members were that rich. Travelling here and there no thought about food in mind no time limits about reaching home, endlessly just one thought in Mind, I have to take my Group on an altogether Different level".A Club member Atharva Patil suggested talking to Mr Sudhakar Badgujar
about sponsorship, they went for the same, He loved the Idea , he said he really loved the Idea, Later one day all of a sudden Mr Badgujar gave Atharva a call and gave us a clean chit,...and deepak badgujar also taking a lot efforts for sponsorship. It was A treat for all of us.
After that whatever Sagar decided, he made it happen, lt it be our 1st event Avishkar, our first ever official blog launching or photo walks, It was as if everything was conspired by the Universe to take place like the way it took !!
The best part is, We the club members have seen so much of hard time that we've all come up really strong now, let it be the negativity of people in the beginning, or the graphic designer leaving us in the middle of everything, or some internal conflicts between the members, it is Today, Wednesday the 6th all those pains just proved to train us, to make us stronger, to push us, and finally, here are we, Already had a Grand Success in the Recent event by us "Avishkaar", the applaudable response, of all our struggling, sleepless nights, all kind of proved the fact that when you are in want of something, the universe does conspires to make it happen !!!
Cheers !!
Written by -
Sukanya Wable
Blog Writer,21st The Club Of Photographerss
