Stories of Lights Exhibition

I am organising an exhibition of the photographs from my fieldwork on electricity access in rural India. The exhibition starts on the 6^th of January, 2014 and is titled ‘stories of lights’. It presents different forms of lights, lighting instruments and peoples engagements with them. The exhibition will be at the Elvet hill house and will be open to general public. If some of you would like to visit, please do let me know. I would be happy to give a guided tour. The details of the exhibition are in the poster below.

where's the light?

photographs in field work exhibition

One of my photographs recently was accepted to be the part of an exhibition organised by the Geography Department at Durham University. The exhibition focused on the use of photography in fieldwork. Photographs in my view are an important tool to tell the various stories emerging in the field, especially if one is doing ethnographic work. Since, ethnography involves being, living, spending time and integrating with the community, photographs provide a very good means of recording data, information and experiences. Needless to say, if one is looking at dissemination of one's research, photographs could be one of the most effective means to do so. 

So, I submitted a few photographs out of which one was selected for the final exhibition. Its probably my favorite out of the thousands of photographs that I clicked during my 9 months in the field. There are several good ones (self appreciation) but I think this one takes the cake. I especially love the colors in this photograph, which came out naturally. No manipulation of the composition.