Old paintings die hard

The Indian Cultural Centre Colombo in association with the Tagore Society of Sri Lanka is organizing a photographic exhibition by Angelo de Mel, eminent Sri Lankan Photographer at the Indian Cultural Centre from April 4 to 7. The inauguration will b e held on April 4 at 6. 00 pm at the Centre located at 16/2, Gregory's Road, Colombo 7. The exhibition will remain open from 10 am to 6 pm.

In this digital age it is indeed heartening to see the work of a photographer of the old school who still clings on to the old technology of print film.

Angel de Mel focuses more on the spiritual side of human viewing he counteracts where all human activities have been converted to digitalization.

In photography nowadays the computer has more or less become the photographer.

Although this is technologically much easier and feasible than the old technology of films and processing, it is a sad but very obvious fact that human values have often been sacrificed for the sake of sheer technical acumen, making the photographer a slave to technology.

With this background the Tagore Society of Sri Lanka, in association with the Indian Cultural Centre presents 'Commentaries on Living IV' the sixth solo exhibition of eminent Sri Lankan photographer Angelo de Mel.

The title of this whole series of photographs is taken from the series of books of the same title by the great Indian philosopher J Krishnamoorthy