The Intra Exhibition 2015 was held from 4th to 6th Dec. 2015. This is a blog of everything that went before during and after the exhibition. This time we decided to go with only three themes. The themes were: 1. Landscape and Cityscapes. 2. Street Photography. 3. Nature Photography. The exhibition was open to everyone associated with IISc, and its sister institutes, NCBS, JNCASR, ICTS, RRI. Lot of new members had joined the club this year after the very successful Basic photography Training session. It was wonderful to see so many new and enthusiastic faces. So the old folks of the club decided also to have a separate Fresher's Contest integrated in the main event. We thought it will engage and motivate the new members of the club. The obi-wan kanobi of the group, Aviruk Lahiri, who is the oldest and wisest of the group was naturally selected to be the first judge for the Fresher's contest. Apart from him, the ever technical Manuj Mukherjee and the most balanced guy, Shounak Roy, was the other two judges. There was a good deal of submissions from the new members, with photographs ranging to every genre of photography. After some analysis, keeping in mind of the content, framing and exposure of each of the photos, they decided the winners which is shown below. Winner of the Fresher's Contest. Shot by Pratik Sarkar . from the CSA dept. He joined as a Master's Student in the CSA department in 2015. The main beauty about shot, is the colorful squares which appears just like a strip from a medium format slide film. The person in the bottom very clearly balances the overall image. 1st Runner up of the Fresher's Contest. Shot by Prateek Kumar Vishwakarma. He is a first year integrated PhD student in the Mathematics department. He took this shot in one of practical training sessions by the club. This is a wonderful shot, bought out nicely by exposure and framing. 2nd Runner up of the Fresher's Contest. Shot by Tobias. He is a exchange student from Germany. He attended a semester in IISc, in the CSA deptartment. This is a very serene shot. A very nice candid moment of a family. The photograph is very nicely framed, with proper exposure, giving a sense of peace and tranquility. Special Mention to Tuhin Chakravarti. He is a first year student in Aerospace department. This is a macro shot of a flower. The exposure is perfect which gives a very nice fee of the overall image. Now we move on to the main event. The main event comprised of a panel of esteemed judges. Rajesh Bhattacharjee was select as the curator for the theme Landscape and Cityscape. He is a landscape photographer based in USA. He was always fascinated by the treasures nature has offered us and cherished those moments he spent in the lofty heights of the Himalayas during his hiking trips. He bought his first film SLR to capture those magical moments during his Himalayan journeys. After moving to USA he took up landscape photography seriously and since then it has been a pleasurable and adventurous journey through the wilderness of numerous national and state parks of United States. Rajesh’s work has been published in magazines and websites like Dpreview, Landscape photography magazine, Smart Photography and Better Photography. Check out his work in https://www.flickr.com/photos/rajesh_b/ Arindam Thokder was selected as the curator of the theme Street Photography. He is a Bangalore based street photographer with a keen sense for contrast and color. An Exchange Administrator by profession, his main interests are documenting social issues and conflicts, charitable aid and travel and cultures of various parts of India. But it is street photography that inspires him the most. He is also one of the valuable members of the Street photography Collective called Thats Life. Find his work in http://www.thatslife.in/tl_members/arindam-thokder/ Prasenjeet Yadav was selected as the curator of the theme Nature. He is a Bangalore based nature and wildlife photographer. A lot of his childhood was spent exploring the forests of central India, where he familiarized himself with the behaviour of wildlife, under the guidance of village elders whose vast real experience was a source of many anecdotes on wildlife. A molecular ecologist by profession, Prasenjeet realized his true calling in storytelling via the medium of photography. His stories have resulted in better understanding of the effects of climate change in Sikkim Himalayas and effects of windmills in surrounding eco-systems. Since 2014, Prasenjeet is a National Geographic Young Explorer covering the Shola forests of the Western Ghats. Check out some of his work in http://www.prasenjeetyadav.com/ The judges were quite overwhelmed with the number of submissions they received for judging. They sorted out top 30 from their respective themes. We printed out top 20 from each theme, and displayed in our gallery. We can't thank them enough to take time out of their busy schedules and help us out in our endeavor. After getting the results from the judges, it was our time to get started on the printing process. The entire printing process was handed out to Sangram and Aviruk. The photographs was printed by PRO LAB. They did a amazing job in printing all the photographs in a matter of 2 hours!! Check out their website: http://prolab.in/. Then came the hardest part. Putting up the prints! We decided to make frames out of thermocol and black chart paper for each photograph. As a added bonus, we also celebrated Sangram's birthday. We laid out the photographs on the floor to decide the order in which they will be displayed. Then we started putting up the prints. One of the guy was pasting it on the wall, while others checking if they were level. It was a boring but important job. We wouldn't want to hang a tilted photo! Lot of people came to our exhibition. Even Arindam Thokder, who was the curator of street photography theme, also came to see our exhibition and sat down with us. All the members were very much excited to interact with him. To check out the complete gallery of this exhibition please go click here.
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