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Beauty ... Not The Beasts
 This
is not about new-found nirvana or a passing passion for the Orient. At
30, Ian Lockwood-US-born, Dhaka-based teacher of photography and environmental
science-has spent almost seven years roaming the Western Ghats in southern
India, capturing the wilderness on camera, being chased by elephants in
a tea garden near Munnar, Kerala, or coming upon a Nilgiri tahr in the
mists. Now he's putting it all together for his exhibition "The Western
Ghats: Portrait & Panorama" that's on at Delhi's India International
Centre from March 25-31. This is not a fleeting fancy.
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| NEUTRAL HUES: Lockwood's exhibition displays his
passion |
Lockwood's nearly 50 prints are a stunning document
of the beauty of the ghats, a job made all the more difficult because
it's a show of black-and-whites. But take a closer look, and the colours
are there. "I personally prefer black and white because it conveys
a dramatic representation of what we see in colour," says Lockwood.
There could have been more drama though if he'd included more than just
a couple of wildlife shots in the show. His candid response: "I feel
that I take better landscape and portrait pictures than I do wildlife
shots!" Looking at his pictures it's hard to tell whether a camera
or a painter's brush was at work here. So perhaps he's just being wise.
-Anna M.M. Vetticad
Slips And Straps
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| NO SHOW (ALMOST): Models Sapre (right,
in her showstopper) and Ajay Balhara |
The invite to the
lingerie show, at Delhi's The Park hotel last week, came with a handcrafted
lace strap. It was a feel of things to come. But for those who came expecting
naughty lingerie, Kolkata-based designer Suman Nathvani's prêt and
signature line, which she calls "sleepwear", was an assortment
of slinky slips, negligees and pyjamas in georgette, chamoise satin, crepe
and lace. "Lingerie is not to be misunderstood for undergarments,"
says Nathvani, who's been designing and retailing lingerie for the past
13 years. During the show, models Madhu Sapre, Nethra Raghuraman, Dino
Morea and Ajay Balhara slipped in and out in pinks, blues, reds and blacks
but the verdict from some parts of the audience was that the creations
were "not skimpy enough". Said Sapre, whose bridal corset was
the evening's show stopper, "As models, we wear revealing clothes
anyway, but I would still prefer my G-strings to slips and pyjamas."
The audience would have too.
-Methil Renuka
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