Immortal moments

Immortal moments

Divya S

“The moments we missed have been immortalised” wrote Jacob Punnoose, DGP in the visitor’s diary at the exhibition. Pictures that awed, shocked and delighted you and then sank into oblivion were brought back to the life at Capital Lens View, the press photographer’s photo exhibition that began on 11th August at VJT hall, Palayam .

The exhibition was organised by the Public Relations Department and Thirivananthapuram Press Club, in association with Kerala Chalachithra Academy. More than a hundred renowned photographs by forty four press photographers were on exhibit. Historical moments, disasters, the marginalised society, golden memories of political events and aspects of nature were caught on the canvas. Photograph in which Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma shakes hand to Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of former American President John F. Kennedy, caught everybody’s attention.

Say cheese: Oommen Chandy inaugurates the exhibition by clicking the camera

  “Most people won’t get the chance to see good photographs that appear in the news papers that they don’t subscribe. This exhibition is for such people. This would also inspire younger press photographers”, says Ratheesh Kumar C., SenoirPhotographer at Hindu .

The exhibition inaugurated by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy ended on 14th August. A workshop by eight prominent photographers was also held during the exhibition.