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To young photographer Sreenag, pictures are about textures
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PHOTO: R. SHIVAJI RAO
LENSVIEW Cinematographer P.C. Sriram (centre) with photographer G Venkatram (left) and B.R.S. Sreenag
At the age of ten, Sreenag was already clicking away on his little box camera. By the time he turned fourteen, he knew that he would be a photographer. So long before he went for classes at the Visual Communication Department of Loyola College, he had already started work on his portfolio. And that's probably explained by the fact that Sreenag's father Ramkumar makes corporate and documentary films and his grandfather B.S. Ranga is a cinematographer, producer and director.
And they were all there at the inauguration of B.R.S. Sreenag's first exhibition of photographs held at the Lakshana Museum of Aarts recently. Cinematographer P. C. Sriram and art director Thotta Tharani were the chief guests.
The exhibits consisted of a range that will show the young photographer in good stead in the competitive arena of commercial photography — from pictures of temples and windblown landscapes, to black and white frame of a mridangam-maker and a beautiful composition of oars in the sand. But a considerable part of the show was made up of Sreenag's experimental works, which he insists on calling photography. "The primary image has been captured by the camera so have been the textures," he said. The textures and the subject where then merged to create surreal images, like an arm reaching out to pick up a tea pot painted on a cardboard, or a Radha and Krishna merged onto a cracked surface to give the impression of a relief.
Sreenag plays with textures and images, superimposing images of old cameras with that of an old diary and a dusty patch of floor or getting a geisha doll to be veiled by a piece of rag-edged moth-eaten paper. He captures the `Splash' of colours in extreme close-ups of colourful, bubble filled liquids. And then he freezes the silhouette of a solitary elephant on a hilltop, in a stark composition, and the curves of a beautiful red Ferrari.
As P. C. Sriram said, "You can call it what you want, digital arts, photography or Photoshop, what really matters is the eye, the creativity of the artists. And Sreenag has given a unique interpretations to things."
The young photographer already has a photography studio, Sreenag Pictures. His next project will be a series on Radha and Krishna.
Logon to www.sreenagpictures.com, to see his works.
MEERA MOHANTY
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