Photojournalists' work comes to focus at Press Day exhibition

Mangalore, July 2: An exhibition of photographs clicked by photojournalists of Mangalore was held as part of the Kannada Press Day celebrations under the auspices of Dakshina Kannada Working Journalists' Association in Mangalore on Monday.

Photographs clicked by photojournalists Ahmed Anwar (Coastaldigest.com), Dayanand Kukkaje (Daijiworld), Satish Ira (Udayavani), Sudhakar Yermal (Vijaya Karnataka), Venu Vinod K S (Vijaya Vani), Ravi Posavanike (The Times of India), Prasanna Bengre (Samyukta Karnataka), Rajesh Shetty (Indian Express), Shashi and Vinay Bhat (Jaya Kirana) have been put up on display.

Jogi, popular columnist and Editor, Udayavani weekly supplement, inaugurated the exhibition.

Coastaldigest.com's photojournalist Ahmed Anwar rates his meal on footpath photograph the best. “My intention is to capture the various shades of human behavior and nothing satisfies a human being more than food”, he said.

Mr. Kukkaje on the other hand chose to go with his beggar at the ATM photograph as his best among the collection which included snaps of birds beautifully lined up on electric wires, an aerial shot of Dubai from atop Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building among others.

Movement of a train amidst beautiful landscape is his best shot, Mr. Ira of Udayavani says. Other photos displayed by him included a well captured hanging monkey, farmers at work on the field among others.

Mr. Shetty is proud of the shot he clicked of a monkey pulling its young one's tail while having its meal and rates it his best. “I spent an hour there and happened to get this very rare shot”, he reveals.

Mr. Yermal's collection consisted of many well captured wildlife photographs besides newsworthy pictures such as scenes from the Mangalore Air Crash, oil tanker accident on the highway etc.

For Mr. Vinay, a photograph he took on the move capturing emotions of schoolchildren on their way to school in an auto rickshaw provides the most contentment among all his works.

The exhibition will be open for four more days.

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