HCP Hosts 43 Frames Photography Exhibition at State Gallery of Art in Madhapur

The Hyderabad Centre for Photography organized an exhibition titled '43 Frames: A World Photography Day Exhibition' at the State Gallery of Art in Madhapur, Hyderabad, bringing together 43 photographic perspectives to mark World Photography Day.

The exhibition, which remains on display until August 26, showcases a wide range of genres including portraits, documentary photography, street scenes, wildlife, landscapes, and architecture from photographers across Hyderabad and Telangana.

Aquin Mathews, director of the Hyderabad Centre for Photography, noted that the exhibition forms part of the organization's World Photography Day celebrations, highlighting local talent and celebrating the medium. Mathews stated that the event also serves as a teaser for the upcoming Indian Photo Festival, which will explore broader issues such as human trafficking, conservation, climate change, water, and mental health.

Among the showcased works is a wildlife photograph by Sri Devi S, capturing feeding time at Nairobi’s elephant orphanage run by the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya. Sri Devi, who took up photography more than two decades ago and spent 20 years living in Kenya, documented the moment milk bottles were brought out to orphaned elephants.

Wedding photographer Abraham Joshia Darivemula contributed a landscape captured near Naggar, approximately 20 kilometres from Manali. Darivemula, who has worked professionally in photography for five years following his MBA, captured contrasting mountain terrains featuring snow-capped peaks alongside green and rugged slopes.

Creative services professional Rahul Premchander presented a photograph titled 'Icarus', shot in Vancouver. The image captures a man performing a backflip off an art installation called 'The Ribs', an upended boat structure, taken in a single split-second shot.

Street photographer Sai Varalakshmi documented a scene from a government school in Andhra Pradesh taken during a Pongal vacation. The photograph features a young girl engaged in a learning exercise identifying right and wrong answers, part of Varalakshmi's focus on recording life in government schools, festivals, and government schemes.