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Third eye says it all
BARELY OUT of toddling days and as young as a bud, the boy bears all the burden of the world. Two bricks perched on his unkempt hair, he plods his weary way even as the tender feet burn in the hot sun.
Another child, another place. Pink as a rose, soft as silk and lounged in the comfort of an air-conditioned room, the boy's tender fingers do a ballet on the laptop. His hair nicely washed and combed, life for him is bright as the colours all around him - yellow, green, red and brown!
Two kids. Same age, same tenderness. But, two varied climates. One hard, another tender. One's destiny obscure, another's secure. The irony of life looks up in all its arrogance, the snout high in the air. G. Vazhisojan has an eye for poignance. His camera speaks from the heart. His camera rolls capture the roll of life, as it is. Sometimes tumbling, sometimes staid. `Early Days,' his exhibition capturing the crucial stage in one's life, growing up as a child - pain for some, pleasure for many - has had everyone touched with its simple yet startling images.
Images that were captured as they are in the Indian hinterlands, be it a small beachside village, near his native Pondicherry, the backward backyards of West Bengal or the vast urban jungle called Mumbai where life is not a child's play.
Working for Agency France Presse and covering Andhra Pradesh, Vazhisojan has a simple agenda. "Be of some help to the needy, particularly children.'' And what better way than his own art - photography. "I've travelled the length and breadth of the country during the last six years trying to capture the pangs of growing up. Someday, I hope to come out with a compilation of all the photographs,'' he says.
A look at a mother in a sprawling Mumbai slum breastfeeding an infant while two more infants doze off awaiting their turn, kids running along the beach in gay abandon - kids are after all kids, right? A child in deep sleep by the wayside on a torn blanket oblivious to the coins donated by generous passers-by, all make compelling viewing. Proceeds from his exhibition being held at the St. Francis Girls College, Begumpet, will go to charity. In the pipeline is another exhibition titled `The Woman.'
More to look forward to, eh?
By Madhav K.V.S.
Photos: P.V. Sivakumar
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