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ARTS PABLO.Indd 53 05/01/16 12:12 AM ARTS I have photographed this country and its people so one could say that it’s a mini THE EYE THAT BEHOLDS personal history of a nation.” Here is a bit of Q&A we had with Pablo Bartholomew. Pablo Bartholomew’s journey as a photographer captured a young nation in its stride. Sakshi Gallery this January will showcase some of his more candid photographs. CB : What is this time’s exhibition all about? Pablo Bartholomew remembers 1984 to be an Bartholomew’s lighter side. PB : This is a fun show from my archive of extremely hectic year. In June, Operation Blue These images include personalities like Saeed images. And the fourth and possibly the Star took place with the army Jaffrey, Adil Jussawala, Anupam last of the extraction from it. Portraits of entering the Golden Temple, Kher, Maneka Gandhi, Shabana artists, poets, writers, actors, film makers, Indira Gandhi being assassinated Azmi and Smita Patil. “This body politicians and more.... All when we were in October and Rajiv Gandhi was of work, 60@60 are 60 images much younger. leading the congress party. The which will possibly be the last CB : You have taken some iconic I was looking to see if I wanted to become a elections process had started on 1 resurrection, a visual testimony portraits, anyone that still strings out as cinematographer or work in the film industry. December, 1986 when the Bhopal to friends and people in the arts special? But chose not to go that route. For me working gas tragedy happened. “Bhopal that I encountered as I traversed in a compact manner and remaining to be a was one of the worst horrors that and muddled through life in my PB : They are all special. That’s why they are in the photographer was a qualitative choice. Working I have witnessed and I hope that early years as I was establishing show. with a group of people or a crew wasn’t what I nothing like this happens again,” myself in the ’70s and ’80s,” says CB : Your father was a Burmese refugee, wanted to get into.Yet there were other things I says Bartholomew. the artist . while your mother was a partisan refugee, picked up. Lighting was one of them. It was a great In many ways we remember him Bartholomew, remains one of learning curve to see how different cameramen lit for his shocking photograph of India’s leading photographers. He how was your childhood like? situations and how they handled the camera. PB : I am a post-independence child of the 50s so the half buried baby in Bhopal. was the first from South Asia to CB : How do you see the Indian art scene? Yet when Sakshi Art Gallery opens win the World Press Photo (WPP) for all practical purposes we were a middle class PB’s 60@60 on 22 January 2016, it will comprise Award in 1975, when he was just 19. His work has family in a young nation that was struggling to find PB : The art scene is very lively. There is a lot of young a body of works of 60 images of artists, actors, already been shown at Musée de l’Homme in Paris, its way and so were we. Being of refugee origin, energy and lots of new work and experimentation is poets from the 70s and 80s, in a way showing Asian Arts Museum in San Francisco, Queens things were sparse and simple. There was no land taking place with the artists. However, there needs Museum of Art in New or property but there was a lot of cultural collateral to be a more mature collector base that needs to York and at Visa pour in those formative times. support the work. The galleries can only put the work forward. l’image – the International CB : How much of them is instilled in your Photojournalism Festival photography? CB : What are your views on Instagram at Perpignan. Moreover, photographers? his client list –includes PB : My father was multi-faceted and with his Time, Newsweek, writing, painting, curating, he also photographed. PB : I haven’t really gotten into Instagram. But there National Geographic, So the tools were at home. The camera’s, film and is a space for everyone and everybody. Not sure if LIFE, GEO, Stern, Le darkroom were all at home. That’s where I learnt all of them can support themselves monetarily. It’s Figaro and The New York the craft of photography when it was much more more of a vanity thing. Times Magazine – envy technical, and a lot more thinking was involved in CB : In a few words, why do you love doing the picture making. for any photojournalist. what you do? Through his lenses, Pablo CB : What did you pick up as a PB : Ironically, this is the only thing that I know has for over 40 years photographer on Satyajit Ray’s, Richard how to do. Hence in one sense I am stuck to it. captured images of a Trapped, if you like to use a stronger word. But growing nation. In his Attenborough’s and Merchant Ivory film some trappings are good. And I work and enjoy own words, “From the age sets? myself and have been fortunate to communicate of 17 years to now at 60 PB : At that time, I was working as a stills through it whether in the media or in the gallery it’s been a journey where photographer. And it was also a time when & museum worlds. 52 CITY BUZZ | | CITY BUZZ 53 ARTS PABLO.indd 53 05/01/16 12:12 AM.
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