Frames of Mind 09

To start with, Frames of Mind 09, Bangalore Photography Club’s Flagship exhibition was a grand success. There were 700+ visitors, and almost all of them had only good things to say about the exhibition. Great media coverage – Thanks to all the reporters who wrote nice stuff about us.

I had to good fortune to capture most of the stuff behind the scenes and in action. Without much of writing, let me do the pictures do the talking, right from the point from where the frames were arranged at the exhibition hall – The prestigious Chitra Kala Parishat (CKP).

Here are the photographs being laid out

The folks at CKP were quite helpful – once the layout was decided, they did all the arrangement by themselves. From L to R, Anand Murali (back turned towards the camera – pilot and photographer), Shivakumar Lakshminarayana (Nature Photographer), Vishnu Janardhanan, Chavali (Organizer), Ankit (Organizer), and Soumyajit Nandy (Nature photographer, conservationist) in the foreground. Amit Soni is helping the folks from CKP with the threads and alignment. Hey, we already have some visitors

Some final adjustments being made in Hall 2 – That’s anand and Soumyajit.

The next day – Chavali addresses our first “official” visitors – All the frames are up now :

People start to come in:

And this is how Hall 1 looks just as we get the final touches in:

Me lighting the lamp as other folks look on – This probably was the proudest I’ve ever been! – Thanks to Ravi Chouhan for getting this frame :

Chief Guest, Mr. Anand Sharan, who needs no introduction to the photographers, delivering his inagural speech:

Mr. Sharan taking a look at the exhibits:

Visitors:

Young Politicians and old photographers From L to R, Raghuram Ashok (more popular on the Flickr world as RedBull), Venkatesan Perumal (the famous PeeVee or PV), his frame and me :

Folks at the talk by famous people photographer, Mr. Mahesh Shantaram

Mr. Kejriwal, accompanied by Danish Hussain (fashion/abstract photographer) Ankit – who has been associated with BPC for very long, spending some time at the exhibition:

And not to be left out, group photos at the end of Day 2 of the exhibition:

Day 3 had a very interesting session by wild life photographer, Mr. Jayanth Sharma Mr Jayanth also happens to be one of the long contributing members of BPC

And to wrap up the exhibition, here are a couple of group photos:

Thanks to Sneha who let me sit in with the folks and shot this photograph:

Over a month of work, effort of around a dozen people, three days of great joy and pleasure, getting to interact with like minded folks, new friends, new enemies – All in two words – Fantastic Experience!

Thanks to everyone who made it possible – Thanks to all the participants, visitors, and photographers who made the exhibition a grand success.