Countryside clicks for that patriotic kick

Updated On: 13 August, 2009 07:56 AM IST | | Soumya Mukerji

Footloose adman-photog Sanjay Das believes true desipann lies in the little details. Here's more on the Eastman and his all-colour prints of patriotism, which are up for view in town

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Footloose adman-photog Sanjay Das believes true desipann lies in the little details. Here's more on the Eastman and his all-colour prints of patriotism, which are up for view in townu00a0u00a0

"Whenever we talk about India, we project it in black and white. I wanted to show it in the best of its colours, in a very close frame," begins Sanjay Das, an unassuming advertising consultant during day and lensman during leisure. After having travelled the world over to work on tourism brochures, calendars and trade shows, he's happy with his homecoming in the form of Close Up India, a show aimed at freeze-framing the lyrical life that flourishes here, even amid all the chaos and cacophony.u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0

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Addition and abstraction

"Each time I have travelled in India, it has been an eye-opener. I have soaked more of its warmth, spirit, and soul. My shots explore all these in an abstract manner, and follow the smaller, significant details," Sanjay explains. His works revolve around bygone bridges, common objects, people and places that speak of what he calls the "space, vastness, vibrations and journey of life." What you can't miss are his renditions of the mountains of North and East India, Ladakh and Lahaul-Spiti, which allow you to breathe free in their boundlessness, even in the tightest of compositions. Here's unreeling his fantasiful film...
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