Land and Lens
| Event Start Date: 7th April 2018 | Event End Date: 13th April 2018 | Event Venue: Bangalore |
Vanastree, and our partnering organisation Punarchith, invite you to join us for Land and Lens, a photography exhibition by youth and women farmers of Chamarajanagar and Sirsi. On the exhibition’s opening weekend, we also invite you to the Mannu-Kannu Mela—featuring a variety of much-loved products from our past Malnad Melas.
Venue:
Venkatappa Art Gallery, Kasturba Road, Bengaluru
Dates:
Land and Lens Exhibition: April 7-13, 2018 10 AM – 7 PM
Inauguration: April 7, 2018 5 PM
Mannu-Kannu Mela: April 7 & 8 (Sat & Sun), 2018 11 AM – 6 PM
Land and Lens is a buoyantly-bold experiment with three simple goals:
- Train rural women and youth how to use professional-level cameras
- Through the camera lens—encourage them to fearlessly reveal their land, lives, and inherent creativity
- Provide them venues, as artists, to share their work
The Land and Lens Exhibition
This vibrant exhibition of photos documents a buoyantly-bold process. Rural women and youth participants, none of whom had previously been trained in the use of a camera—were encouraged to fearlessly explore sessions of self-guided photography. With unrealised talents coming to light, each photo isn’t just an image for our students—it is an experience.
Through this exhibition, we aim to provide our photographers a unique space. One where their creative expressions can open viewer’s eyes to places and lifescapes seldom explored. Soil and skies, crops and trees, community and home, and unusual spaces that the streets become. Agricultural and rural land, expansive and beautiful, but often stressed. With its many hardships and joys, the students share revealing glimpses into the daily rhythm of village India.
More than simply a collection of photos, the Land and Lens exhibition features elements of traditional village art alongside contemporary media—weaving together a vivid narrative of a collective rural experience in the Chamarajanagar and Sirsi regions.
Mannu-Kannu Mela
Our opening weekend event will host many of the Land and Lens photographers, and stalls by Vanya, Vanastree, and Honneru: Rural Youth Collective—featuring their products, crafts, seeds, and more.
Meet the food producers cum photographers! Land and Lens student artists will be in attendance during opening weekend.
For more details about the Land and Lens Photography Exhibition, visit landandlens.org/events a
Looking forward to meeting you all again!
Best wishes,
The Vanastree Collective