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Sipra Das : The Inner Eye

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Sipra Das has many dreams and one of them is to showcase to the world, the colourful life of people who cannot differentiate between a red and a white.

On her solo exhibition (May 7, 2005) at the Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, Das said, finding all these scenes in photographs may not surprise you till you are told that the people in them are all visually impaired.

An interesting aspect of this exhibition was that even visually impaired people, to whom it was dedicated, were able to see it. Das had a book of picture details prepared in Braille for the purpose.

It took seven years for her to compile these photographs. During that time she went to blind schools in Ahmedabad, Faridabad and Delhi. She stayed with blind people and attended their marriages. She even traveled with a group on a mountaineering expedition to Nepal.

Currently employed with ‘India Today’, a leading news magazine, her journey to news photography, she relates, was not an easy one. She started photography in 1983 when hardly any women news photographers was there. "I was not given a job in a leading newspaper despite freelancing for them and bringing them pictures that their photographers weren't able to. It was only after I gave an exclusive photograph of Rajiv Gandhi inaugurating the Farakka bridge in Kolkata to PTI that they came to me with an appointment letter to my house and said, `We haven't given you a job, you have achieved it'," she recalls.

In future, Das plans to mount similar exhibitions in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata.

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