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Snapshots of India
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Kolkata recently played host to a photo festival.
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THIRD EYE
PHOTOGRAPHS are special pieces of celluloid which hold a lot of meaning for the beholder.
We all know how to operate a simple camera. You just point to the subject and release the shutter, but that's where there is a big difference between a normal photograph and a "painted photograph".
From October 13 to 19, Kolkata was host to one of the biggest photo exhibitions that has ever taken place in India. Three galleries were used to exhibit the photographs and it was here that the public actually got to see a painting in a photograph — hence the term the "painted photograph".
The Third Eye Fifth Photo Festival was a tremendous success. With more than 100 photographs on exhibit and over 60 photographers displaying their works of art, Kolkata was treated to a visual feast as the city's most talented photographers "painted" the walls of the Academy of Fine Arts. If that was not all, visitors were also treated to a slide show of more than 300 slides every evening.
More significant, however, was the fact that every photograph looked at an aspect of India, whether it was a landscape picture or a "people picture" or a combination. There were beautiful pictures of trees, a notable one being that by Shuvodip Chanda where a bare branch highlights an almost bare sky. An eye-catching picture of two little children in front of a Ma-Durga statue by Sudip Roy Choudhury, and an exquisite picture of trees bending in the wind with just two men walking by them taken by Atanu Paul, were a few of the noteworthy examples.
Young photographers were also given a chance to display their respective pieces, a talented one being Surjodeep Ghosh whose photographs were worthy of praise.
The exhibition showed that there is an abundance of talented photographers who only need an outlet to show off their work. Third Eye, the organiation that was responsible for this exhibition, is trying to make these exhibitions as frequent as possible thus giving more photographers an opportunity to display their works.
ANANDA SEN
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