Calcutta Photo Tours

Calcutta Photo Tours If you love to travel, and to take pictures to immortalize what you have experienced, then you must join us on one of our tours!
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Walk the streets; visit amazing places in this city; led by a photographer who is passionate about photography and the city. A vivid city rendered in elegantly striking contrasts, Calcutta is a treat to the travelling soul and a fresh canvas to photographer’s eye.

‘Calcutta Photo Tours’ is a unique travel company that has been formed with the spirit of celebrating the variegated flavours of a ce

nturies old city. We are here to bring out the city before you as never before, in all its tastes and colours, striking all chords of life that churns up in the city. We believe that the beauty of Calcutta lies in its complexity that exudes unforgettable warmth and a raw charm, which can be best appreciated by a trained eye. This city is more prone to the lens than most people believe it to be, and so we are here to share with you ‘the Calcutta experience’, to enable you to be more responsive towards the powerhouse of emotions that Calcutta is. So, what makes us different from any ordinary travel company? We are here to offer you a combination of photography training and a chance to explore this wonderful city – its history, its culture - to understand its various facets. During the tours we will add value to your photography skills, and help you to translate this value by helping you take better photographs while guiding you through a city, exploring its major tourist attractions in the backdrop of its cultural significance. Live photo-shooting, photography tips and instructions, browsing through the instructor’s photographs for a more visual training, and a general view of the socio-cultural setting will enable you to go back from Calcutta with an enriching experience. Calcutta Photo Tours is not restricted to tourist destinations – in a city like Calcutta you just can’t afford that! Of course, there are a few Photo Tour companies across the globe that offer a more ‘inside’ experience of cities, but it is the first of its kind in Calcutta. What we intend to offer you, is a more wholesome experience of the city, and in a sense, an experience that is more local. From major attractions to unnoticed corners, Calcutta can set your photographic taste-buds on fire. We will guide you to the city’s heart, providing you with relevant annotations on historical background where applicable, or sometimes just let you immerse yourself in the moment. A finely knitted mesh of information and experience can make the landscapes, streets, architecture, markets and people come alive before you – which we believe our mission to be! If you are diffident about your photography skills, we assure you it’s the last thing you should worry about. We are here to translate your passion into skills that can be used to capture the soul of the city. A short interactive session with us can get you in sync with most aspects of the art, and then you can go on an adventure with your lens all on your own. Calcutta Photo Tours wants to make your stay an unforgettable one at an intellectual and artistic level. Whether you come here alone, or with family and friends, we want you to have an experience here that gnaws at your heart to come back to the city again and again, long after you have left it behind...

As Henry Miller puts it, ‘’One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”

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马年大吉,马到成功,新年快乐!Ma nian da ji, ma dao cheng gong, xin nian kuai le.Wishing you great fortune in the Year of the Horse, sw...
17/02/2026

马年大吉,马到成功,新年快乐!
Ma nian da ji, ma dao cheng gong, xin nian kuai le.

Wishing you great fortune in the Year of the Horse, swift success in all you do, and a very Happy New Year!
May this year bring bold energy, fast wins, and unstoppable momentum.

16/01/2026

Hooghly at dawn—flowers arrive, pigeons lift, the river keeps its counsel, and Calcutta prepares itself.



Hooghly river ghat dawn Calcutta black and white documentary flower market river life India street documentary observational cinema

My tours give me the best seats in the house for some truly wonderful conversations. Mr. Verma here was exactly that. It...
18/12/2025

My tours give me the best seats in the house for some truly wonderful conversations. Mr. Verma here was exactly that. It began with him asking one of the guests why she was laughing so much while we waited for the ferry, and soon graduated into a brilliant, wide-ranging commentary on the current world political scenario — followed by a full-throated song.

Moments like these make me deeply thankful for what I do. I say a small prayer every time I’m reminded how blessed I am that this is not a desk job.

22/11/2025

Mundane Moments.

20/11/2025

Walk

There’s a quiet gravity in moments like this.A man sits before a barber, the world around him blurred into old stone and...
19/11/2025

There’s a quiet gravity in moments like this.
A man sits before a barber, the world around him blurred into old stone and morning air. His head is being shaved clean — not as fashion, not as vanity, but as a final offering in the wake of loss.

In Hindu tradition, when someone close dies, the family performs antim sanskar — the last rites. It’s a journey of releasing: ashes to the river, prayers to the sky, memories into the hands of whatever we call the divine. One of the oldest rituals is this—the shaving of the head, a symbolic shedding of ego, identity, and the everyday self. A way of saying: I am stripped down. I am changed. Their departure has altered me too.

To a Western eye, it may simply look like a haircut.
To a Hindu, it’s a small earthquake.

And standing there with my camera, watching this man surrender his last layer of normalcy, I couldn’t help but feel that maybe this ritual is also a kind of lifeboat. A mechanism the old world built to survive heartbreak. Grief is so abstract, so untouchable — it sits inside the chest like fog. But losing one’s hair… that’s concrete. Immediate. You look in the mirror and you see a version of yourself that cannot pretend everything is the same.

Maybe that’s the point.
Maybe when you can’t make sense of the loss inside, you shift something outside. Trade one ache for another, more manageable one. A fresh bald head instead of the unbearable emptiness left behind.

This photograph is that moment — the exact second grief takes physical form.
A palm resting gently on a skull, a blade whispering across skin, a man trying to hold himself together in the only way his ancestors taught him.

And somehow, in that surrender, there is a strange kind of strength.

© Manjit Singh Hoonjan.
All rights reserved. 2025.

16/11/2025

Today felt like someone slipped a little bit of magic into the morning breeze.
After the flower market, we hopped onto my favourite ferry — that slow, dreamy glide across the Hooghly where the sun feels like warm silk and the river hums its old winter song.

My guests were glowing, the conversations were easy, and the city looked like it had dressed up just for us. One of those rides where every frame feels like it belongs in a film… the kind of moment you always think you’ll get “someday,” and then suddenly, there it is — perfect, effortless, happening right now.

A simple ferry, a bright sun, laughter drifting over the water…
Some things just turn out extra special with the right company.

Jenny took our humble chai cup to Rome —where the Colosseum still stands,and this little bhanr (clay cup) now gazes at i...
07/11/2025

Jenny took our humble chai cup to Rome —
where the Colosseum still stands,
and this little bhanr (clay cup) now gazes at it,
quietly representing Calcutta.

It’s amusing, really — a cup made to be used once and thrown away,
now travelling the world, collecting stories instead of tea stains.

From the ghats to the gladiators,
the brotherhood of the travelling chai cups lives on.



Not all philosophers wear robes — some wear t-shirts.“My Social Battery” says it all — charged at two people, drained by...
14/10/2025

Not all philosophers wear robes — some wear t-shirts.
“My Social Battery” says it all — charged at two people, drained by five!

Spotted in Kolkata’s streets, part of our new series celebrating Wisdom from T-Shirts.

Seen a tee that made you think (or laugh)?

Tag and drop it under . Let’s build the world’s biggest street-side philosophy archive!

Calcutta is more than its clichés. Here’s a small, everyday rhythm — bold, repetitive, and quietly human. This is a slow...
18/09/2025

Calcutta is more than its clichés. Here’s a small, everyday rhythm — bold, repetitive, and quietly human. This is a slow look at the city nobody posts about. 

I’m launching a new series: — reframing the city through its overlooked patterns and ordinary moments. New frame, new story.

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265 Bipin Behari Ganguly Street
Kolkata
700012

Opening Hours

Monday 6am - 9:30pm
Tuesday 6am - 9:30pm
Wednesday 6am - 9:30pm
Thursday 6am - 9:30pm
Friday 6am - 9:30pm
Saturday 6am - 9:30pm
Sunday 6am - 9:30pm

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