Divya Goyal: Ludhiana, Sun Jul 21 2013
South-Asian Solidarity and Diversity: Lived Stories, Everyday', an exhibition displaying a collection of photographs of everyday life from all over Southeast Asia in a village, ended on Saturday. The exhibition was organised for the very first time.
Oraganisers said the exhibition received an overwhelming response from the villagers of Daudpur who, for the first time in their lives, were exposed to international photography.
"We organised such exhibitions in the city and a very selected class of people used to visit but we have been pleasantly surprised to see that villagers gave an amazing response and for three days we even had to extend our timings," said Daljit Ami, talking to Newsline.
The exhibition, which was organised by the Hri Institute for South-Asian Research and Exchange, Kathmandu and Panjab Digital Library, Chandigarh, was inaugurated by renowned artist Malkit Singh on July 18. "In our meeting last year with representatives from Kathmandu it was especially decided that instead of cities, such exhibitions should be organised in villages," added Ami.
The exhibition, which started from Chandigarh, will also move to other places in South-Asian countries. The images in the exhibition have been collected from individual collections of common people, amateur and professional photographers from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tibet. Some of the most prized photographs in the exhibition include a calendar published from Calcutta in the 1950s, an advertisement of footwear company Bata which appeared in 1963 in Pakistan, and a photo of six sisters from Agra born during 1935 to 1946 who got triple degrees.
The photograph of a Nepalese woman, Vidya Pradhan, who graduated in 1966 from Thakur Ram Campus, Birgunj, makes for an interesting story. Pradhan refused to have her class's group photograph framed and hung on the wall of her house as she did not want to be reminded of her struggle to become a college graduate. Now, that image is being displayed in the exhibition.
(With thanks from Ludhiana Newsline. Spelling and factual corrections have been done while publishing it on this blog. )
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