Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2025/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Super Set, Jay!! Ric > On Dec 10, 2025, at 12:39?AM, Nathan Wajsman via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> wrote: > > I really like the concept and the way you executed it. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > @nwajsman.bsky.social > > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > > > > > > > >> On 24 Nov 2025, at 15:43, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at >> leica-users.org> wrote: >> >> My third exhibition of photographic prints, jointly held together with my >> friend, Dr.P.Srnivasan (who exhibited B&W prints taken in the Himalayas), >> concluded in Chennai yesterday (23rd November 2025). My previous two >> exhibitions had concentrated on my wildlife photography. This one, >> however, >> was a departure from that norm, as clarified by my 'Artist's Note" at the >> event: >> >> >> >> *"I have always been a photographer of living subjects ? people on the >> streets, as well as wildlife in remote and uninhabited places of the >> world. >> In recent years, I have found myself drawn to abstract photography as a >> creative medium to express myself. * >> >> >> >> *The path to abstract work** was triggered by a visit to an installation >> called ?Field of Light? on a visit to Uluru in Australia in January 2020. >> It is an installation of lights spread over acres of land and so had to be >> viewed at night. We were allowed to carry a camera into the area, but no >> tripod. This made me experiment with ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) >> techniques and I was quite pleased with the results.* >> >> >> >> * This also harks back to the first book on photography I ever owned, >> called ?Creation? by Ernst Haas, which, subconsciously, would have >> encouraged experimentation in the abstract form. The Covid lockdown >> further >> accentuated this trend into abstract imagery, concentrating not just on >> light, but graphics, shapes and textures as well. On perusing my images >> for >> this exhibition, I found that they worked very well when shown in pairs, >> consisting of two images which share, to different degrees, aspects of >> imagery with each other."* >> >> >> >> At the inauguration/preview of the exhibition, I also released my >> first book called "Lockdown Chronicles", which basically details the >> photographs I took when India was placed under a total lockdown during the >> Covid pandemic. The foreword to the book was written by fellow Lugger Bill >> Clough, who very kindly consented to do so at my request. The book was >> formally released by my uncle, Mr.T.S.Krishnamurthy, who retired as the >> Chief Election Commissioner of India, a key post for holding free and fair >> democratic elections in the country, a herculean task! >> >> >> >> So, here, then, is my exhibit of photographs, called ?Pairs?, where two >> images were hung together on the walls, to be viewed in relation to each >> other. I have numbered the images accordingly in the online gallery. There >> are 14 pairs in all, for a total of 28 prints: >> >> >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Pairs/ >> >> >> >> Please see LARGE >> >> >> >> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Jayanand >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information