Guess what's common between fashion designer Malini Ramani, art collector Swapan Seth, film actor Sushma Seth, model Kamal Sidhu and social activist Sabrina Lall

They are all subjects of a new body of work, which photographer Bonny Hazuria likes to call 'painted photographs'.


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Hazuria started out as a fashion photographer twenty five years ago, to finally make a mark as an art photographer when she made her debut last year in a group show. She talks to MiD-Day about her ongoing exhibition Between Heaven and Earth, God and Prague

What's behind the title of the exhibition?
These are pictures that I have treated to enhance the effects of; it's difficult for people to grasp what exactly I have done as each of the pictures has been treated differently. So 'painted photographs' is an easy to understand description. In some pictures, I have used brushstrokes to give a painterly effect and in some I have used textures and lighting to create an ambience.