[Leica] Exhibition

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

My third exhibition of photographic prints, jointly held together with my
friend, Dr.P.Srnivasan (who exhibited B&W prints taken in the Himalayas),
concluded in Chennai yesterday (23rd November 2025). My previous two
exhibitions had concentrated on my wildlife photography. This one, however,
was a departure from that norm, as clarified by my 'Artist's Note" at the
event:



*"I have always been a photographer of living subjects ? people on the
streets, as well as wildlife in remote and uninhabited places of the world.
In recent years, I have found myself drawn to abstract photography as a
creative medium to express myself. *



*The path to abstract work** was triggered by a visit to an installation
called ?Field of Light? on a visit to Uluru in Australia in January 2020.
It is an installation of lights spread over acres of land and so had to be
viewed at night. We were allowed to carry a camera into the area, but no
tripod. This made me experiment with ICM (Intentional Camera Movement)
techniques and I was quite pleased with the results.*



* This also harks back to the first book on photography I ever owned,
called ?Creation? by Ernst Haas, which, subconsciously, would have
encouraged experimentation in the abstract form. The Covid lockdown further
accentuated this trend into abstract imagery, concentrating not just on
light, but graphics, shapes and textures as well. On perusing my images for
this exhibition, I found that they worked very well when shown in pairs,
consisting of two images which share, to different degrees, aspects of
imagery with each other."*



At the inauguration/preview of the exhibition, I also released my
first book called "Lockdown Chronicles", which basically details the
photographs I took when India was placed under a total lockdown during the
Covid pandemic. The foreword to the book was written by fellow Lugger Bill
Clough, who very kindly consented to do so at my request. The book was
formally released by my uncle, Mr.T.S.Krishnamurthy, who retired as the
Chief Election Commissioner of India, a key post for holding free and fair
democratic elections in the country, a herculean task!



So, here, then, is my exhibit of photographs, called ?Pairs?, where two
images were hung together on the walls, to be viewed in relation to each
other. I have numbered the images accordingly in the online gallery. There
are 14 pairs in all, for a total of 28 prints:



http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Pairs/



Please see LARGE



Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome



Cheers

Jayanand