CHANDIGARH, Nov 19: The frames are a pleasant diversion from the routine mundane matters of life and provide the viewers with a kind of kaleidoscope on the diverse, beautiful, visages of India, an India which lies hidden in the sand on the beaches, the chequered floor of the temple and in the bathing lama child. So the collection of photographs that adorn the walls of the Museum of Fine Arts at the Panjab University is a visual delight indeed.Abhinav Nayyar, the person behind these photographs, is a man of many facets. If he is not reporting for his Hyderabad-based newspaper, then he is writing poems. And in between he goes on his voyage across the country. So his frames are a blend of all these; we get a journalist's observation, a poet's sensibility and a photographer's sensitivity in them.Abhinav has provided a sepia-tone to most of his works which in turn engulf them with an aura of eternity. So the Pachmarhi child peeping through a shawl or the child at the window of a train get a permanent seat in the viewer's mind as they are for they never grow up.Abhinav's favourite haunt seems to be the beaches and the compositions that he creates out of the three elements, earth, water and sky, speak about the intensity of the work.So if the title of the work says "Dance of waves'', it is really a dance of sun's light on the ripples. And his "Churning of the Ocean'' is indeed one, as the camera has created a virtual whirlpool right on the shore. His frames throb with life and are full of emotions. So the picture of the empty room of Gandhiji at Sabarmati Ashram fills you with a void befitting the import of the place.Each frame at the exhibition seems to be growing more in maturity. Moreover, he has the knack to present his object in a different manner as we get the Golden Temple in a glory more pristine than usually reflected. Abhinav's technical skills come out in the web of lights created out of "recording with his camera'' in what is a kind of "painting with light''. It is an exhibition one must not miss and is on only for two more days.
