SOME MOMENTS DESERVE MORE THAN ONE ANGLE....
My interest in photography started during my undergraduate period at JIPMER, Pondicherry. The campus was at the outskirts of the town, with sprawling fields surrounding it, giving ample opportunity for photography. JIPMER itself provided the right ambiance to kindle interest in the visual arts. The campus was studded with sculptures and paintings. Right in front of our hostel there was wonderful replica of Rodin's Thinker. Each of the wards had an appropriate painting at its entrance. There was a resident artist and a full fledged photography section . I still vividly recollect the first image I clicked...a pair of slippers left in a hole in a big tree. I took it to Mr Krishnan a very enthusiastic head of the photography section, who liked it immensely and helped me to make a good, big print of it. I exhibited it in the First All India Inter Medical Youth Festival and surprisingly it won the first prize! It spurned me on to further explorations in photography. Auroville was then just coming up and weekend cycling trips there provided many a good opportunity to exercise this interest.
Over the years, cameras have changed but the passion sustains!
Nobody has articulated the mysteries and pleasures of photography better than Susan Sontag:
The photographing eye changes the way we view our world. In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing. Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads -- as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood. To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed
My interest in photography started during my undergraduate period at JIPMER, Pondicherry. The campus was at the outskirts of the town, with sprawling fields surrounding it, giving ample opportunity for photography. JIPMER itself provided the right ambiance to kindle interest in the visual arts. The campus was studded with sculptures and paintings. Right in front of our hostel there was wonderful replica of Rodin's Thinker. Each of the wards had an appropriate painting at its entrance. There was a resident artist and a full fledged photography section . I still vividly recollect the first image I clicked...a pair of slippers left in a hole in a big tree. I took it to Mr Krishnan a very enthusiastic head of the photography section, who liked it immensely and helped me to make a good, big print of it. I exhibited it in the First All India Inter Medical Youth Festival and surprisingly it won the first prize! It spurned me on to further explorations in photography. Auroville was then just coming up and weekend cycling trips there provided many a good opportunity to exercise this interest.
Over the years, cameras have changed but the passion sustains!
Nobody has articulated the mysteries and pleasures of photography better than Susan Sontag:
The photographing eye changes the way we view our world. In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing. Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads -- as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood. To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed
Flip though the following pages to have a glimpse of some of my "captures"!