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Witness the beauty of the Western Ghats at this exhibition in Mumbai
Updated On: 15 October, 2023 09:07 AM IST | Mumbai | Christalle Fernandes
Environment photographer Ian Lockwood’s Sky Islands exhibition portrays the beauty of the Western Ghats in monochromatic splendour
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Environmental photographer Ian Lockwood, who lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka, says that his black-and-white photos capture the minute elements of a landscape in a way colour photography cannot. Pic/Sameer Markande
Say Western Ghats and one can hardly picture it without a riot of orange, purple and yellow of flowers in bloom, amidst all conceivable shades of green. Under an overstretched sky of blue. Which is why when we flip through the breath-taking series of photos clicked by environmental photographer Ian Lockwood, we are surprised to note how the ecologically-rich region comes alive even in his black-and-white photographs.
“Although we have such a variety of options for colour photography in today’s day and age, the black-and-white medium, which I primarily work with, has an aesthetic value,” Lockwood says. “It simplifies otherwise complex objects and surroundings, and at the same time, brings out the unique characteristics of a composition.” Lockwood, who has been living in Sri Lanka for 18 years, is a teacher of geography and environmental systems at Overseas School of Colombo, and is coming back to India with a collection of his works to exhibit.
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