Dreams on display: images speak
The Hindu : SHILPA SEBASTIAN R.
These stunning photographs of underprivileged children are bound to strike a note of empathy.
This photo exhibition is my way of raising funds for these beautiful children.
PHOTO: K. MURALIKUMARPortraits of hope: Giving the real picture.
Life through a different lens” an exhibition of photographs by Vaibhav Mehta, which put together images of underprivileged children was held recently. The images showed children from the poorest of circumstances, but for whom hope was still alive.Encountering reality
Vaibhav says that he gave up his career to become a self taught photographer. He encountered a child who was begging at a traffic signal, who was full of both despair and hope, and this made him decide to capture such children through his lens.
He got in touch with Outreach, an NGO that works with children of labourers in Bangalore.
Vaibhav started visiting thelocality, spending time with them to photograph them. “The older children took care of the younger ones as their parents were away at work. And I did not have to ask them to pose in any way. The idea was to catch them in candid moods. This photo exhibition is my way of raising funds for these beautiful children,” says the artist.
The exhibition also had children writing out their dreams on paper.Messages include: “I want to join the Indian army”, “I want to become an engineer”These notes were written by each child in English and Kannada, with drawings and are pasted on cardboards .“I let these writings do all the talking. We handed each guest these confessions so that they could get the real picture,” explains Vaibhav.
The funds raised by the sale of these photographs go to help these very children.
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