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Darryl Baptista exhibits new collection of photographs

To know what binds Goa, Mumbai and Hong Kong, you only have to take a look at Darryl Baptista’s new exhibition of photos, for they have a common thread indeed.

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To know what binds Goa, Mumbai and Hong Kong, you only have to take a look at Darryl Baptista’s new exhibition of photos, for they have a common thread indeed; they’re set in the backdrop of the sea and everything that’s connected to it — boats, nets, islanders and lots of Bombay duck.

“That’s not really my favourite food though,” smiles the East Indian photographer. “I’d rather that the fish are caught on my camera and then go onto the wall than my plate.”

For someone who’s shot tourism videos and rural photography with his trusty SLR, the new works are the result of his own sojourns across the two countries. While the pictures portray their own tale, they also have a distinct story to tell of their own.

“Places and people offer much diversity and the pictures are so unplanned,” he starts, adding, “like in this village called Tai O in Hong Kong where houses of a fishing settlement are on stilts. The fishermen are so organised here with cold storage facilities on their boats, unlike say, Goa,” he muses. “Mornings I’d step out and wait for the scene to unfold — dawn breaking over the horizon and the housing settlement which was on stilts and then their tiny sampans (boats) dominating the land and sea...absolutely beautiful.”  

In some pictures, one sees boats at Palolem and Anjuna in Goa and then those that dot the Kowloon harbour. “What I like about landscapes and seascapes is they offer a simple, rustic beauty,” he admits.

Darryl’s next, however, will have him shooting on land, hinterland in fact, as he’s going to shoot rural  India, works for which he was guest exhibitor at The Gallery of the International Cultural Centre, Belgrade.
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