KARACHI, April 28: A dynamic balance of riotous colours and more sombre shades, in a nutshell, sums up the range of photographs on display at the ClickArt ’07 exhibition.
The exhibition, organised by the Photographic Society of Karachi, in association with the Fine Arts Committee of the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, opened on Saturday at the Art’s Council’s Manzar Akbar Hall.
As per the programme, the works of 29 photographers are on display at the show, which will run until May 1. Along with the images of known names in the world of fashion photography, such as Arif Mahmood, Tapu Javeri and Shamyl Khuro, the work of less well-known lensmen (and women) outside the world of photography, is also on display. And dare one say that their images are on a par with those of the stalwarts.
It would be an injustice to single out any one photographer for outstanding work, as all the images on display were distinctive in their own right. But some prints were indeed more striking than others, for, as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Recurring subjects were buildings, the cityscape, nature and, of course, people. Rizwan Khan’s pictures of the Jehangir Kothari Parade just after sunset were simply marvellous, along with his shot of the Karachi Container Terminal.
Kabir Khan’s panoramic shot of Lahore’s Badshahi mosque was majesty personified, while Parveen Qureishi’s picture of what seemed to be the same mosque’s interior during the day (the shot wasn’t labelled) displayed remarkable depth of field.
Ultimately, the exhibition is a visual feast, with these artistically-inclined photographers taking the mundane and the banal and transforming it into the otherworldly.
KARACHI, April 28: A dynamic balance of riotous colours and more sombre shades, in a nutshell, sums up the range of photographs on display at the ClickArt ’07 exhibition.
