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A amusement by photographer- creator Georges Atamian connected Puducherry, its radical and culture, is connected astatine Alliance Française. | Photo Credit: M. Dinesh Varma
Armenian-born photographer-artist Georges Atamian has an antithetic mode of extending the beingness rhythm of each frame, of transforming what whitethorn person different been conscionable different country from the streets into an enduring image.
Whether helium is adjusting the viewfinder of his trusted Fujifilm instrumentality connected a pistillate vendor astatine the Goubert Market, a seller of pooja accessories adjacent to a temple oregon a lad grinning arsenic helium is clicked down the backmost of his mother, Atamian goes backmost to each taxable successful his frames to acquisition them a developed print.
And, the representation helium clicks of them holding the archetypal with delight, becomes different framework — an hold of the narration betwixt the lensman and his model, a charming sequel to their archetypal encounter.
“It’s similar a picture-in-picture...a communicative wrong a story”, said Atamian, who has titled his ongoing expo astatine the Alliance Francaise, “L’écho d’un instant” (The echo of an instant).
Why cannot photography, truthful often reduced to an enactment of taking, go an enactment of giving?, seems to beryllium the guiding rule of his art.
The postulation of astir 70 frames are wholly astir mean folks going astir their lives successful the city.
From scenes astatine the bustling Goubert market, the colourful pageantry of a temple festival oregon the Manju Virattu, a benign bull sport, helium handholds the visitant connected a travel of discovering a microcosm of the city’s civilization done its radical and their lives.
As an avid traveller, helium is ever seeking to “preserve moments of quality and carnivore witnesser to the satellite erstwhile it reveals itself successful a simple, luminous truth”.
He explores photography “not lone arsenic a means of representation, but besides arsenic an enactment of forging a relationship, sharing and transmission, provoking a reflection connected our narration to images and to others”.
“Simple gestures, mean scenes, that successful their impermanence, uncover a soundless and bonzer beauty. And, successful their hands, their ain representation is similar an echo returned to its source”, helium said.
Atamian was hardly exaggerating astir however overmuch helium loves to beryllium amidst mean folks going astir their lives. Prior to the expo, helium had deed the streets to invitation the subjects of his frames to the event. To his delight, galore of them showed up for the launch.
Atamian, who discontinue firm beingness to crook to his lifelong passionateness astir 7 years ago, shuttles betwixt the Savoie section of France, wherever helium is settled, and India, a spot helium is successful emotion with. In fact, helium would person chosen to prosecute much with black-and-white frames (as helium does for a conception connected children and for portraiture) had it not been for the passionateness for colour that permeates thoroughfare beingness here, helium said.
To him, the astir fascinating facet of photography is however each infinitesimal is unique---one infinitesimal astatine variance with the next---and however determination is nuance adjacent successful a seemingly inactive scene.
Atamian, who is besides a jazz musician, looks guardant to papers the petanque, a boule athletics of French origins that inactive has a tiny bands of enthusiasts successful a spot that was governed by the French for astir 3 centuries.
The expo, which is connected till January 18, adjacent moves to The Spot, and past to Auroville successful the second fractional of February.
