BROEKN CAMERA · VOL 02 · '26

KL · MY

FRAME 00 · COVER

BROEKN camera

Photography and synthography by Chiranjeet Banerjee. Kuala Lumpur.

PLATE 00

EI 400 · ƒ2.0

Photography · Synthography · Direction · Kuala Lumpur · Open for commission · Photography · Synthography · Direction · Kuala Lumpur · Open for commission ·

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01

TITLE

Statement

SCENE

THE THESIS

C. BANERJEE

A PHOTOGRAPHY

AND SYNTHOGRAPHY STUDIO

Photography for the picture that has to be remembered.
Synthography for the one that cannot be shot.

BY

Chiranjeet Banerjee

Founder, director, photographer

The studio is built around one rule. Half the work is the frames left out. The published series is small because the unpublished one was larger.

Two practices share the same discipline. Editorial portraiture for brands and people who want a photograph that earns the wall. Synthography for the picture that cannot be shot, made prompt by prompt, finished by hand.

Both are the same craft in different rooms.

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02

TITLE

Studio

SCENE

THREE PLATES

C. BANERJEE

CONTENTS

What the studio does.

Three plates. Two practices, one set of standards. Each is scoped per brief and quoted on intent. No package tier, no monthly retainer for content.

PLATEA.01

Editorial Portraiture

Cinema for one frame.

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Cinematic studio and on-location shoots for brands, magazines, and the kind of subjects who do not photograph well under ordinary direction. The studio runs the picture. Casting input, lighting, post, print, delivery. You run the audience that sees it.

PLATEA.02

Synthography

The picture you cannot shoot.

REQUEST PLATE A.02 →

AI imagery built as a production, not a generation. Used where stock cannot reach and a shoot is impossible. Alternate worlds, hypothetical campaigns, retrofitted product imagery, weather that never happened. Finished to the same standard as a shoot. Tooling and prompts disclosed in full.

PLATEA.03

Direction

For a brand, not a campaign.

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Creative direction for editorial campaigns, brand identity rebuilds, and visual systems where photography and synthography work as one set. Designed for marketing leads and creative directors who need an outside eye that has shipped real work, not a deck.

RATES, DELIVERY, AND INCLUSIONS SHARED ON REQUEST. ASK →

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03

TITLE

Tales

SCENE

3 CHAPTERS

C. BANERJEE

CHAPTERED · PHOTOGRAPHY

Series, not albums.

A subject, a register, a tempo. The story comes first. The plates follow.

TALE 01 / Portraits of subjects who would not perform for the lens. MAR · 2026

The Quiet Refusal

Quiet,

refused.

PLACE: KUALA LUMPUR
FORMAT: EI 400 · 50MM

THE STORY

Subjects who would not perform for the lens.

Shot over four months with people who agreed to sit only on the condition that they would not be made to smile. What came out was a register of attention. The frame did the work. The subject did not. The picture that stays is the one taken just before the shoulders settle.

FOUR PLATES

CLOSING

The room is what you make it, not what they bring in.

TALE 02 / Two cities, between eleven and three. NOV · 2025

After Midnight

After,

all of it.

PLACE: KL · SG
FORMAT: EI 800 · 35MM

THE STORY

Two cities, between eleven and three.

Worked between 11pm and 3am across Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. The studio mood is something a lighting kit cannot fake at any other hour. These are pictures of how the body sits when the day stops asking for anything.

CLOSING

Night was the studio. Everything else was lighting.

TALE 03 / The frame before, and the same frame after. ONGOING

The Held Breath

Held,

in two.

PLACE: KUALA LUMPUR
FORMAT: EI 200 · MED FORMAT

THE STORY

A long project in two passes.

First pass: subjects pause between actions. The kettle about to whistle. The door half open. Second pass: the same subjects, the same days, after something has happened we did not photograph. The pairing is the work.

CLOSING

Half the work is the pairs I left out.

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04

TITLE

Synthography

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PRODUCTION DOCUMENT

C. BANERJEE

AI IMAGE WORK, RUN AS A SHOOT

Made prompt by prompt. Finished by hand.

Every series is presented the same way a shoot would be. World sheet, process, specs, tooling, runtime. What you see is what you would be quoted for.

PRODUCTION

B.01

The Atelier of Salt

A perfume house photographed for a campaign that does not exist.

B.01 · OPENING PLATESYNTHOGRAPHY

THE STORY

Built as a private exercise. Invent a perfume house with three flagship scents, shoot the campaign for one of them, and treat AI the way a stylist treats a wardrobe trunk. What came out was an editorial portrait series of a couturier who never wore the perfume because the perfume never existed.

WORLD SHEET

What it is.

Brand

Atelier de Sel

Scent

Eau Vide · No. 1

Era

Imagined 1952

Subject

The couturier

Palette

Bone, oxide, salt

Register

Editorial colour

·The couturier never speaks. Photographed between fittings only.
·Every prop a near-miss reference. No identifiable brand.
·Light direction always 9 o'clock or 3 o'clock. No softbox spill.

CREATION PROCESS · 6 STEPS

How the picture was made.

01

Mood and refusal

Six reference panels. Three rejected for being too period-correct. Evoke 1952, do not reconstruct it.

02

Character generation

Eight portrait variants. Two carried into the series. The other six generated to fail. The failures shaped the keepers.

03

Environment

Three room studies. Walls, windows, props generated separately, then composited. Editorial discipline, not magic.

04

Camera grammar

Lens and aperture written into every prompt. ƒ2.8, 80mm, slight tilt. The image built around camera language.

05

Post and finish

Lightroom on every frame. Curves, grain plate, print-grade upscale. The photograph finishes in hand, not in tool.

06

Cut

From 38 generated frames, 7 published. Five rejected for being too easy. Two held for a future series.

SPECIFICATIONS

Frames

7 of 38

Resolution

6000 × 4500 px

Master

TIFF · ProPhoto

TOOLING

Generator

Midjourney v6.1

Reference

Nano Banana

Upscale

Magnific Relight

RUNTIME

~2h

Brief, mood

~3h

Character

~4h

Series + edit

PRODUCTION

B.02

Last Embers

A character study built against the tooling, not with it.

B.02 · OPENING PLATESYNTHOGRAPHY

THE STORY

Commercial AI imagery flattens into magazine-grade lighting by default. This series argues against that default. A single character, four scenes, all at the end of something. A cigarette. A fight. A long shift. A sentence.

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05

TITLE

The Operator

SCENE

WHO MADE THIS

C. BANERJEE

DIRECTOR · PHOTOGRAPHER

Chiranjeet
Banerjee

A photographer and synthographer in Kuala Lumpur. The studio runs as a one-room practice. Brief, shoot, edit, deliver. Some commissions stay private. The work that does show earned a place to be seen.

— C. Banerjee

CB · KL · MYSELF · 2026

METHOD · FOUR PRINCIPLES

How the studio works.

I

The frame is the contract

The picture is the answer to a brief, not a piece of self-expression. If the brief is wrong, that conversation happens first. The shoot starts when the disagreement ends.

II

Refusal is part of the work

Half of every series is the frames I do not show. Editing is the photograph. A small set published is a stronger statement than a large set unfiltered.

III

AI is a chemistry, not a shortcut

Synthography runs on the same discipline as a shoot. Prompted, generated, refused, refined, finished. The picture stops at the file. The photograph is finished by hand.

IV

The work travels light

No crew of five for a portrait. No press kit for a one-page case. The studio runs lean because the picture deserves more attention than the production around it.

CREDIT LIST

Selected work.

The studio works under non-disclosure with most commercial clients. Specifics are shared in conversation, never in public copy.

2025-26Editorial portraiture, brand campaigns, synthography commissions
2024Personal project: The Held Breath, ongoing
2022-24Selected commissions, undisclosed by NDA
2021-22Editorial work, regional press
Further references on request, where the engagement permits.

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06

TITLE

Signal

SCENE

INCOMING / UPCOMING

C. BANERJEE

TALE 00 / A story in preparation 2025

Untitled Tale

Coming

soon.

THE STORY

A new photographic tale is being composed.

Details will appear here when the project is ready for preview. This placeholder mirrors the layout of a published Tale.

PRODUCTION

B.00

Untitled Synthesis

An AI-generated work in development.

THE STORY

A new synthography production is in the pipeline. World sheet, specifications, and process details will be revealed when this work is ready.

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07

TITLE

Commission

SCENE

ENGAGEMENT OPEN

C. BANERJEE

BRIEF FIRST, SCOPE SECOND

Tell me what the picture is for.

One short brief is enough. Response within 48 hours, often within 24. If the fit is wrong, I will say so and point you somewhere it is right.

INTENT

BUDGET (BAND, NOT PROMISE)

WHEN

YOUR NAME EMAIL THE BRIEF, WHAT THE PICTURE IS FOR

Or write directly: be.chiranjeet@gmail.com

RESPONSE

Within 48 hours, often within 24.

REGION

Kuala Lumpur, travelling for commission.

ELSEWHERE

EMAIL INSTAGRAM

BROEKN camera

Photography for the picture that has to be remembered. Synthography for the one that cannot be shot.

What the studio does.

Editorial Portraiture

Synthography

Direction

Series, not albums.

The Quiet Refusal

After Midnight

The Held Breath

Made prompt by prompt. Finished by hand.

The Atelier of Salt

What it is.

How the picture was made.

Last Embers

Chiranjeet Banerjee

How the studio works.

The frame is the contract

Refusal is part of the work

AI is a chemistry, not a shortcut

The work travels light

Selected work.

Untitled Tale

Untitled Synthesis

Tell me what the picture is for.

The brief is in.

Photography for the picture that has to be remembered.
Synthography for the one that cannot be shot.

Chiranjeet
Banerjee