Disharee Art Space put together a photography exhibition, Present Continuous, comprising the works of seven visual artists, each of whom brought a unique perspective. Mala Mukherjee’s eye for finding charm in decay remains as sharp as ever. The juxtaposition of colours and textures marks her close-up frames of abstraction. Asis Kumar Sanyal captures the guileless joy of a child playing with herself in a set of low-key, high-contrast black-and-white photographs. Jayanta Saha spots communal bonhomie in both colour and black and white.
Sumit Basu’s Plantation is a surreal landscape where light, reflection and darkness are used to perfection. As striking is Bhaskar Mukherjee’s mysterious shot of a landscape cloaked in mist. Both artists picked black and white to emphasise the contrast between light and dark. Nilanjan Ray abjures the cliched in his poignant vignettes of Varanasi and Debiprasad Mukherjee highlights the indelible marks left on the souls of women abandoned by their husbands and their families in his photo essay.
