Himalaya through the wandering lens of Deb Mukharji

India International Centre has organised an exhibition of 75 selected images of mountains and forests, lakes and rivers, from the heart of Himalaya, seen by the wandering lens of Deb Mukharji over six decades.

Titled 'Tall tales from the Himalaya', the art show was inaugurated by Yashwant Sinha, former Union Minister on February 7, and will be on view until February 19, at at the Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex, IIC.

Though an 'amateur' photographer by definition, Deb Mukharji's work has received recognition and appreciation by critics and viewers. Eminent film director late Mrinal Sen had commented "Pleasure to feel poetry through lens" and Goutam Ghose had found it a "Wonderful journey". Mukharji is the author of Magic of Nepal (Rupa 2005), Visions of the Infinite (Nepalaya 2009) and A Quest Beyond the Himalaya (Niyogi 2013), the latter two on his three visits to Kailash and Manasarovar.

His photographs, including on architecture and dance, have been carried by prominent journals.

Deb Mukharji has held solo exhibitions in Delhi, at the India International Centre, in 1994 and 2002, at the Drik Gallery in Dhaka in 2000 and at The Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata in 2003.

Though Mukharji has worked extensively with Kodachrome in the past, his preferred medium is black and white. The current exhibition will largely feature his black and white photographs.