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From her perspective

Gorakhpur, UTTAR PRADESH  / NEW DELHI :

Celebrating works of female photographers, an exhibition was mounted in New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts

You would be familiar with the ‘male gaze’, a term coined by feminist critic Laura Mulvey, which states that the point of view of almost all cinema or photograph is masculine. But if one pays attention to the recent trend in photography, women are actually taking back the gaze. Female gaze can be ascribed to anything photographed by a woman and in that process frees females from the “male-constructed” photographs that have developed an image of femininity in our minds throughout the history of image making.

Similar themes were central to Prof. Farhat Basir Khan’s recently concluded exhibition Feminography at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, which was the result of his observations and curated work of female photographers which includes media practitioners, teachers, scholars, writers, mothers and daughters.

On the rationale of holding an exhibition based on women’s perspective of the world, Prof. Khan, who also teaches photography at MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, said: “Feminography celebrates the work of women in India and their journey of both being and becoming a woman. It is a narrative of the people, places and spaces, and the relation women shares within it, which is shot through the lens.”

Prof. Khan is happy that more and more women are now asserting their position through social media platforms like Instagram and the broader perspective on the way we look at the woman is changing through it. It is also reflected in the shifting of many institutional magazine’s portrayals of women, which are now showing them as a character in a visual narrative, not as an object of desire.

Transcending barriers

Nitisha Malick takes inspiration from urban eccentricities and captures the connection with the wilderness in her picture Maids Of Gurgaon. “I wanted to show the emotions of those women who live in the shadows of modern cities but their life is still very far from development,” said Mallick, while explaining her work. In an another picture, she explored the contentment of a girl despite all hardships and challenges in her life. All images shown were powerful stories of cities andspaces that women photographers inhabit and the barriers that they transcend.

FROM HER PRISM Saumya Khandelwal’s “Child Bride in Shravasti”
FROM HER PRISM Saumya Khandelwal’s “Child Bride in Shravasti”

Some were independent memories shot with a half smile; others with grit and determination, still others with a gentle non-abrasive press of a shutter. Saumya Khandelwal’s “Child Bride in Shravasti”, questions the life of young married girls yet reflects the happiness that they have built for themselves. “The subjects in the works includes forms and textures – the mundane and the ordinary which is transcending them into works of art to frame, admire and cherish,” concluded Prof. Khan.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Entertainment> Art / by Atif Khan / January 04th, 2017

An underwater photography exhibition for Lucknowites

(L to R) Farhat Basir Khan, Prof. S.P. Singh at the exhibition of Aditya Havelia (BCCL / Vishnu Jaiswal)
(L to R) Farhat Basir Khan, Prof. S.P. Singh at the exhibition of Aditya Havelia (BCCL / Vishnu Jaiswal)

Lucknow, UTTAR PRADESH :

Lucknowites  witnessed an underwater photography exhibition titled Into the Blue, by Aditya Havelia  at an art gallery in Aliganj.

Giving the social message of saving our water from pollution, the eight-day exhibition attracted a lot of photography enthusiasts.

The exhibition, which had 54 pictures clicked by the photographer from the year 2010, was inaugurated by Prof SP Singh, vice-chancellor, Lucknow University. Singh said, “I really enjoyed seeing the underwater life.

Aditya’s initiative to promote the cause of water pollution was also worth appreciating.”
Curated by the academician, Farhat Basir Khan, the photos displayed Aditya’s work from Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Netrani Island, Malaysia and Mauritius.

Telling us about the hard work put in to get the perfect clicks, Aditya said, “We usually don’t get a perfect guide for underwater photography, which made it a bit of a challenge for me to click these photographs.”

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> News> City News> Lucknow News> Events / by Adnaan Rizvi / TNN / April 05th, 2018