A photography exhibition ‘Faded Jewellery of Shining Economy’ has been put up by a young freelance photographer Manoj Bharti Gupta at Bharat Bhavan.
The exhibition that began from Tuesday at Rangdarshini Gallery is evoking a huge response. Organised under Rupabh series of art exhibitions, the photograph exhibition would conclude here on Saturday.
Gupta has presented the pictures from daily life situations and has connected them with the developing economy of the country. His work is versatile and in the endeavour to do something different Gupta has not given any titles to his pictures but, searched these pictures according to the concept.
While talking to The Pioneer, Gupta said, “I am a freelance photographer and so my work is not bounded. This is my first one-man show and here I have focused on the topic about which we talk every now and then, ‘Developing Economy of our Country.”
He has displayed his work very intelligently. He collected some news articles since his childhood and connected them to the pictures as titles. “I know this was really difficult to do but, it is often hard to try out something different,” Manoj said. Elaborating further, he said, “When I was in class 10, I collected some news articles, through which I got the concept of putting up this show.”
There are about 36 photographs at the gallery. Gupta said, “I have been working on this topic for last three years and have travelled to Rajasthan and Kolkata for this.” One could find 80 per cent work from New Delhi, most of pictures tells the story of so-called development in metro cities, he added.
Explaining further Gupta said, “Through my photographs I want to bring in focus that we are always indulge in the discussion about the development of the nation and are busy in constructing huge buildings. But, there are around 49 slums in Delhi where no developments have been carried out till now.” He further informed that his next project is on education that he will do with Jyotismita Milan.
The spectators were awestruck to watch his work. They were mesmerized with the remarkable work presented by the artist.