Open themes including nature, wildlife, street, portrait, travel and landscape etc were captured by Mushroom photographers in an exhibition underway in the Rashtriya lalit Kala Akademi here since February 11.
It was organised to promote photography as art form, exchange and share knowledge and techniques of photography, said president and founder-member of the Mushroom club Sumon Sinha.
The gallery presented different modes of photographic vision. The group exhibition featured 55 photographers’ clicks and they presented wide variety of techniques, styles, and processes in their work.
Hailing from different walks of life, the photographers showcased State’s art, culture and lifestyle, macro photography on different creatures, birds and sceneries through some stunning images.
Of all the pictures the shutterbugs submitted, 120 were selected to be displayed at the exhibition. “The idea was to attract youth towards photography and create a sense of observation among them. It has become a passion for youth these days,” said Jitendra Pati of the Mushroom. The beauty of birds’ paradise Mangalajodi, mountains with different light effects, landscapes, striking serpentine road, portraits and festivals were also exhibited in the gallery.
A click by Sumon Sinha, blue bull clicked in Bharatpur, Rajastan, was a veritable crowd-puller. A click ‘Innocent look’, by Srikrishna Das showed the innocence of a child through the window of a bus. The click, frame-within-frame, was taken in Kolkata, where the child’s look is really expressive. Satyabrata Mohapatra’s Bamboo Pit Viper and Mihir Swain’s Pit Viper were also stunning. Bokeh genre of photography, clicked by Siddharth Mohanty in Chilika, was also an awesome one. Siddharth also clicked a child’s perception in Kartik Purnima. The photographers clicked pictures of different activities of the beautiful birds also. While Soumya Ranjan Mishra’s ‘Mama’ showed the expression of a monkey cub, at the time of sitting in her mother lap, Sujoy Dasgupta captured the love of a monkey towards her child. Similarly, Jitendra Pati showcased three bucks in his frame.
Students of the Bipin Bihari Choudhry School of Deaf inaugurated the event. The works would be on view in the gallery till February 17.