Category: Photo Feature

Sharadotsav Partha seal Cultural traditions become icons of society over time, deep rooted in the psyche and mundane everyday existence. Durga Puja is a festival highly anticipated all year round, beginning with mahalaya, the arrival of the Goddess on Earth. Usually celebrated in September or Sharat Ritu the onset of pre-winter, there is a feel […]

Dasha-Hara The Bonfires of Effigies Pranab Seal Dusshera falls on the 10th day of the Navratri as prominent as a celebration of good over evil across Northern India, depicted by burning effigies of Ravana with Kumbhkaran and meghnath. This major religious cultural event is preceded by various other celebrations like Ram Lila, the enactment of […]

Fisherman and the Sea: Photographic Series of Subodh Kerkar 2008 to Present Lina Vincent Sunish As a medical doctor in a previous avatar, practicing a stone’s throw from the sea-shore, Subodh Kerkar had the opportunity to get to know the lives of fisher-folk at close quarters. He realised that their lives were deeply and inexorably […]

Saint Teresa of calcutta Dilip Banerjee

Five Quartets @ Art Konsult Art & Deal Correspondent Curated by Uma Nair 23rd May, 2015 01. S. H. Raza , 02. S. H. Raza lightening the lamp with curator Uma Nair, Siddhartha Tagore & Akhilesh, 03. From the right: Aruna Vasudev, Siddhartha Tagore, Jatin Das & Shridhar Iyer, 04. Artist Sudip Roy with curator […]

“The Fabled Hampi” by Ganesh Doddamani Art & Deal Correspondent On The Occasion Of World Heritage Day, Art Spice Gallery At The Metropolitan Hotel & Spa Gifts Presented An Enthralling Exhibition, “The Fabled Hampi” By An Award-Wining Artist, Ganesh Doddamani. April 18, 2015: The fabled ruins of Hampi have often provided a wide canvas for […]

Dev Kamal Dutta Farmers toil ceaselessly year after year in the verdant soil to cultivate food. Providing for the masses, their own struggle continues every single day, striving for a mere existence; battling with poverty. Their burdens only too evident in the lines on their faces. The vendors that obtain their crops at moderate prices […]

Tat Tvam Asi – Nature’s Burial – N. P. Jayan Balachandran V. Whatever I dig up of you, O earth, May you of that have quick replenishment! O purifying one, May my thrust never reach unto your vital points, your heart. [Atharva Veda, 12.35] Since time immemorial, Indians have known that all life form depends […]

On the Cusp of Times: Sebastiao Salgado Uma Nair Genesis, by internationally renowned photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, is an eight year photographic expedition revealing the raw untouched beauty of thirty-two different locations around the planet. Uma Nair reviews how the exhibition bequeaths life to the dead ‘man-nature’ sentiment. When William Blake wrote his precious Auguries of […]

Of Echoes And Silent Rupture: Prabir Purkayastha Uma Nair Many times a forbidden space tells its story with the porches and columns speaking of the architectural history and motifs and patterns dictating the artistic and ancestral tales. Uma Nair reads one such tale through Prabir Purkayastha’s works. Prabir Purkayastha’s magnum opus of black and white […]

Jyoti Bhatt Tasveer and Vacheron Constantin present photographs by Indian artist Jyoti Bhatt for the first time in Mumbai. The exhibition chronicles the artist’s travels across rural India in the mid-60s, where he visited villages and tribal regions photographing folk arts and craft traditions in their original environments, along with the people who inhabited these […]

Durga-Dynam ics of power, gender bias and a st ory of Widows in India Sharmistha Dutta This is a self-financed photography project that I took up as I wanted to address the immense apathy and gender inequality that exists against women, specially the widows in India. The project focuses specifically on the widows living in […]

WALKING in HAUZ KHAS Saba Hasan The Hauz Khas madarsa and its lake have been adopted by me as artistic inspiration, a challenge, a form of history and a symbol, actually, an entire philosophical microcosm, right from the start. I take a long time to develop my creative ideas and prefer to work in a […]

LIVING ARCHITECTURE by ANDREAS VOLWAHSEN An Exhibition Presented by Vacheron Constantin And Tasveer ANDREAS VOLWAHSEN Dr. Andreas Volwahsen was born in 1941 in Dresden, Germany, where he also grew up and went to school. His fascination for the Indian subcontinent began while studying at the Technical University of Munich in the 1960s, during which time […]

MULTIPOINT INTERNATIONAL ART SYMPOSIUM 2013, SLOVAK Dhaneshwar Shah The European Union has very significantly enriched its cultural wealth as well as its cultural diversity. Art has to search for a new position in society or, vice versa. Nitra is one of the oldest town ettlements located in South-Western Slovakia and is the fifth largest city […]