Visual treat

Amarjot Kaur

At the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Sector 10, The Iconics Luxurious and Unorthodox India—a group of young photographers—along with charitable trust called Sangye Menla Trust and DAV College’s photography club called Pixels, has put up a two-day long photography exhibition. 

Titled The Eminent Buddha, the exhibition hosts some 50 photographs, which are a mixed bag of macro, wildlife, landscape, portrait and abstract photography.

Aditya Mohindru of Pixels shares, “Most photographs here are clicked by students, some are graduates, while others are post-graduates.” Clicked by 22-year-old Vardan Bains, a picture of a white tiger at the Chhatbir Zoo is among the first few pictures at the vestibule of the gallery. There are others too, like a chameleon clicked by Gursimrat Singh and a candid shot of a spider and its cobweb by Aashpreet Kaur.

In the entrance of the gallery, there’s a picture of the Golden Temple and placed right beside it is a photograph of Akshardham’s intricate architecture captured by Aviral Kaushal. It’s the snow-capped mountains that always make for a customary photograph at exhibitions and The Eminent Buddha doesn’t give them a miss; it brings alive the scenic landscape of the Himalayas. It’s the evening view of the Dal Lake that accentuates the beauty of the exhibition, but even the plain urban landscapes make a winning deal here, sometimes for the technique employed to clicking these frames and at other occasions for the artiste’s perspective. Nand Kishore’s picture of the India Gate may make it look like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, but if you look closely, it’s a wide angle shot that captures the time, space and movement in the photograph. “I can’t afford a camera, so I clicked this using panorama, on my mobile,” says the 19-year-old. There are several strikingly beautiful pictures, among which Daman Gambhir’s picture of a lone boat takes the cake. “I clicked this one from a watch tower. It’s clicked from the top and I had to lean over to get this view,” he says. The final picture of the The Eminent Buddha shows a statue of Buddha exuding light. 

On till today.