For a student of the theory of evolution, the religious claims that humans were created as they were is indeed confusing, especially when so many theories state that humans could have evolved from lesser species, possibly monkeys.
Sixteen-year old Aghin Komachi too wondered if the theory of evolution was indeed true when he titled his exhibition of photographs ‘Confusion’.
Coming from a family of photographers, this art is in the blood of Aghin too. A Plus Two student at Farook High school in Feroke, Aghin’s second exhibition largely deals with the confusion regarding Darwin’s theory of evolution with supporting quotes from various scholars.
Aghin has captured several images of various types of monkeys from across the country in their natural best.
Apart from documenting various types of monkeys like Baboon’s Golden Langur, Lion tailed macaque, Nilgiri Langur, Capuchin monkey, Bonnet macaque and Chimpanzees with images captures mostly from the wild (while some are from zoos), Aghin has tracked down the level to familiarity the monkeys show towards man in general.
His images have captured the monkeys living in sync with other species in the forest, wounded monkeys, their fight, babies and the effect of pollution on them besides their idle postures.
Hairless monkey looks like a man
The images of the caged or confined monkeys pull some heart strings. The image of a hairless monkey from the Thrissur zoo and its similarity with a man makes one decide that the evolution theory must indeed be right.
But Aghin is not sure yet, for one of the captions for his pictures is “If evolution actually happens, why do mothers have only two hands”.
The exhibition that began at the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Art Gallery in Kozhikode on Sunday was inaugurated by famed nature photographer N.A.Naseer. It concludes on May 26.
