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JNTU holds ‘Light 05’ exhibition

Staff Reporter

-PHOTO: P.V. SIVAKUMAR

A click away: Photographic exhibits at JNTU Fine Arts College on Tuesday.

HYDERABAD: Photography is an art backed by science or is it interplay between lights and sets? Whatever the invited guests felt, myriad moods of life and nature were captured by budding photographers of the College of Fine Arts of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.

Photographs shot by students of Bachelor of Fine Arts of Photography & Visual Communication were showcased at an exhibition ‘Light 05’ on the occasion of World Photography Day, on Tuesday.

The photos not only projected talent but was also part of the course’s internal assessment.

Students were asked to choose a theme and over a span of three months had to take related photographs.

Architecture, fashion, travel, wildlife, classical dance were some of the themes chosen.. Principal Secretary, Higher Education Asuthosh Mishra, who inaugurated the exhibition, saw the need to set up photography clubs in the campus apart from various affiliated colleges.

N. Srinivas, an amateur photographer, found the exhibition enthralling and said that the university’s idea to conduct it to promote their students’ work, was commendable.

College Principal B. Krishna Gandhi, said photography places beauty of the world before mankind and is a very powerful medium. S. Pradeep Kumar, head of the department, who judged the photographs said: “Light is the life of any photographer.”

G. Subramanyam Naidu got the first prize for his theme ‘Old Monuments’ while S. Srinivas won the second prize for his theme on ‘Wildlife’.

The third prize was awarded to K. Rushendra Reddy for Tsearch of light’.

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