"Chayarupa" is the Sinhala word for photograph (Sinhala is a language spoken in Sri Lanka). "Chaya" means shadow and "rupa" depicts a painting or a drawing. A crude translation therefore would be a shadow painting, which would bring out the true nature photography as an art. To me fine art photography is about painting with your camera and capture an image that would give me (and hopefully others) the ability to enjoy the message beneath. Painting with shadows? My kind of art...
