DRISHTIRAAGA 2020

Visual melody (Drishtiraaga) was the theme of Mushroom’s Annual Photo Festival of the current year. This writer is a regular visitor of Mushroom’s Photo-Art show year after year; it has been bigger, better and grand affair with each passing year. This is their 7^th edition and lucky too in terms of diverse genres of photographs and also photographers that has taken art lovers of the city by surprise. No body has ever displayed the landscape of Scotland and Kashipur-Koraput in Odisha together, Hawamahal and Tajmahal in the same wall, Romance of Flamingos and Birds in search of food & conflict of interest shown beautifully in one block and there were very many creative photographs showcased in tribute to the mind games of players of lenses; you will have moments where fingers would automatically go and rest on your lips in complete silence. Seventy Frames are in display on very diverse subjects like: Nature, Wildlife, Street, Candid Portraits, Travel and Landscape. This show specially you must visit with your loved ones, observe and enjoy the photos exclusively printed in glossy medium with very large size of 30x20 inches and impeccably framed with contrasting inners, just right to display in your living area. Hurry up tomorrow is the last day of Drishtiraaga 2020. I wish if I could have written about this earlier than today. Nevertheless, do visit Lalit Kala Academy Regional Centre at Kharabela Nagar between 11 a.m to 7.30 p.m. Otherwise; you may miss a very good opportunity to make yourself happy and joyful without shelling out a dime on a movie ticket. Once you are there then look for the following photographs—I bet you will get a thrill of your life. “In the mist” by Rashmiranjan Sahoo, “Light and Shadow” by Kuntal Paul, “Aastha” by Sanjeet Patnaik, “Magic of Soul-Manali” by Swati Mohapatra, “In the Temple of his spirit each human is alone” by Satyabrata Mohapatra, “Whispering Medows” by Dr. Falguni Ray, “Tranquility” by Jitendra Pati, “Sea Side” by  Sauren Moonoo Das, “Sky is the Limit” by Dharma Sangram Amanta, “Class of Titans” by Sunila Padhee, “The Last Eye Contact” by Satyabrata Nanda, “Ways of the Wild” by Sunila Padhee, “Air Flamingo” by Haraprasana Nayak and “Romance of Flamingo” by  Rajeev Rout.

        

  Those who are new to Mushroom and its work; Simply it is a Photographers’ Circle incubated to promote photography as an art form and at the same time it also works as a platform for exchange of ideas, knowledge & techniques on Photography and it also train aspiring and budding amateur photographers through workshops. It is a pleasure to know that such a special interest group is live and kicking in the SMART CITY of Bhubaneswar which must now have a Museum to showcase rare photo-arts round the year and that could become a place of tourist attraction apart from being a cultural hot spot for the visiting dignitaries to our State. With progress of Mushroom our city would also earn a good name for its progressive and cultural opulence.

  Drishtiraaga 2020 got up to a festive start on 27^th February 2020 in the presence of Sri Jugal Debata, eminent Cinematographer and would close on 4^th March 2020. In between,  Fujifilm displayed their products followed by an interactive session spearheaded by Sri Anindo Basu, product evangelist Fujifilm India and a short film festival that screened short films for two hours to the applause of visitors and art lovers.