Photographer Mark Edwards’ exhibition in the city titled Hard Rain: Our Headlong collision with nature highlights the irony and truth of the world we live in today.
Mark is one of the few environmental communicators to have personally witness global issues that are defining our present times. The exhibition is in collaboration with British Council and is inspired by Bob Dylan’s prophetic song A hard rain’s a-gonna fall. It features startling pictures taken by Mark andother noted photographers. The lyrics of the song run along relevantly with each picture and make the exhibition all the more exceptional.
Interestingly, the pictures at the exhibition are like a jig saw puzzle, which when put together highlight global issues like draught, disease, climate change, animal slaughter, deforestation and others.
Mark’s concludes explaining that the world has little chance to solve the problem of poverty, the wasteful use of resources, habitat and species loss, and the summation of our problems, climate change, unless all of us decide to tackle all of them together.
“We have to give governments a constituency to reinvent the modern world,” says Mark adding, “political change comes only when people form a movement so large that the governments have no choice but to listen and act. The last verse of Dylan’s song begins ‘What’ll you do now?’ It’s a question that cannot be left hanging,” he says.
Mark’s exhibition is currently underway at the Bandra Fort lawns and will conclude on November 29.
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