Peaush Vikram Panesar

“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; i turn people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.” However, it is not an ordinary task but takes a deep understanding of the subject and the object that needs to be captured. I, Peaush Vikram Panesar, an artist from Chandigarh possesses same power and even beyond to leave people contemplate on the predicament of women in our society through my first art photography project “Solace in Solitude” . Negating the conventional rules and divorcing my family business soon I picked up photography as my vocation. I made camera as my instrument to show people what often gets disdained. My first work reflects on the sad predicament of women. It serves as a mouthpiece for the voice of women which seldom gets a platform to vent out her pain, agony, sorrow and joy. My work is said to be memento mori. As to take a photograph I participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.

Exhibitions


Solace in Solitude Aug .2013
My first photography exhibition was Solace in solitude, the exhibition was sponsored by Language Art & Culture Dept. Himachal Pradesh in month of august 2013 at gaiety theatre, Shimla

The Women Cell Mar. 2014
Second to the series of solace in solitude I came up with “The Women Cell” and the exhibition was conducted by Alliance Francaise de Chandigarh on occasion of women’s day march 08, 2014

Ladhak Aug. 2014
A collection of travel photography in ladhak region, the collection includes portraits, landscapes and travel photography. The work was done for personal collection.

Shakti (Yoga) Mar. 2016
On the banks of sacred river Ganga in rishikesh also known as the land of YOGA. Art exhibition “SHAKTI” was presented at International Yoga Festival 2016 at parmarth ashram.