On a warm Sunday afternoon, visitors to Hyderabad’s State Art Gallery are greeted ‘Bonjour! Comment Allez-Vous? (French for ‘Good morning! How are you?’). The French connection leads to ‘Dalwadi: An Indian lens on France’ a photo exhibition (at the Gallery till June 6) by professor Parmanand Dalwadi. This postcard from the Paris of the ‘70s comes to town as part of Bonjour India 2022 celebrating Indo-French relations. Organised by Alliance Francaise of Hyderabad in collaboration with the India Photo Festival, the travelling exhibition rings in nostalgia with 50 black-and-white photographs.
‘Paris and its Terraces’ showcases a relaxed group of people in different moods. A candid frame of Indian and Parisian women filled with joie de vivre on July 14 Bastille Day celebrations on a street, two lovebirds under an umbrella in front of the Parisian twin towers, a woman’s hand casually wrapped around the man’s waist shows how a fleeting moment is made memorable through images.
