A photograph of politicians looking like they are being punished, holding their ears and going down on their knees, but actually going through a yoga session, is titled ‘Political Exercise’. It can’t but help bring a smile on to your face.
This and over another 150 photographs are worth a watch at the annual exhibition organised by the Photojournalists Association of Bangalore.
Over 100 photographers from the city who work with daily newspapers, magazines, and photo agencies, have put forward their best works, captured over the course of their work day, or outside its boundary.
The magic of black and white is not left behind either; some of Bengaluru’s most renowned photojournalists of yore offer their seething insights.
Most of the photographs are about the “moment”, about being at the right place at the right time.
There are those that will make you look on in awe, those that will catch your eye for their colour and their lighting, those that will wrench your heart. The subjects are spread across the board — from snake-like traffic jams, Vijay Mallya and SRK on the cricket field, IT employees riding bullock carts to protest bad roads, a man wading waist-deep through a river of plastic garbage, vociferous student protests in the city — it’s a window to many of the things Bengaluru obsesses about.
There are the romantic travel pictures too, capturing the beauty of nature. The cute-sie ones — of the Dalai Lama in childlike glee peeping from behind a curtain, Nandan Nilekani having his oops moment, a foreign tourist in a bikini taking a photo of a fisherwoman who seems more interested in the tourist, a BMTC bus driver bizarrely at the wheel wearing a helmet, labourers being carted on the city roads in an earth-digger, or a kid enjoying his orange ice-candy with orange eyecandy flying in the sky at the Aero India show.
All photographers of The Hindu have their excellent works at the show too. Do watch out for the pictures by Bhagya Prakash K., V. Sreenivasa Murthy, Sampath Kumar G.P, Murali Kumar K., and Sudhakara Jain.
Frozen Memories – 2015 is currently on view and today April 29 is the last day of the exhibition at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
