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Robi Ganguli’s work,
with its unpretentious knack for experimentation, embodies
a delightful immersion into the residue of contemporary
visual culture. He transforms nature into contemplative
artworks that are masterfully manipulated into visually
arresting artistic statement. In Flowers, he plays
between the real and the surreal, using bright orange and
intense blues to create tension and demand inspection. In
Dreamland, he is less concerned with color, letting
nature’s own speak for itself and focusing largely
on irregular shapes with the deliberate avoidance of all
but two straight edges which gives the piece a sense of
movement and internal life. Engaging in its execution, his
work is creative in the best sense.
As a young man, when world-renowned photographer
Henri Cartier-Bresson visited Pondicherry, India to cover
the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Ganguli had the good fortune of
moving around with him, watching his unobtrusive techniques,
for almost three weeks. Ganguli was deeply interested in
photography and began participating in national and international
exhibitions of pictorial photography. His work was chosen
for publication in annuals including Photography Yearbook,
Photograms of the Year, and the FIAP (Federation
of International Art Photography) Annual. He organized
the annual Pondicherry International Salon of Photography,
and edited publications on behalf of the Federation of Indian
Photography. In 2002, he began experimenting with digital
photography and manipulation. Discovering a whole new world
of luminous creativity, he has never looked back.
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