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Ragas
colour, passion, harmony of sound & word


by Elizabeth Rogers
Museum Curator and Art critic



Elizabeth Rogers


Mohit Midha's photographs transport the mind of the viewer with a dazzling palette of emotions, evocative of the imagery and sensations aroused by ragas. His vision sweeps across India and the Himalayas, from Sultanpur to Corbett, from the Kibitho to the Indus Valley, from Kargil to Kanha, Siachen to Gir, Spiti to Ladakh, Bhutan to Nepal, from Himachal to Uttaranchal, with the pictorial sensitivity and detail of a camera obscura, albeit in a contemporary blaze of colour. Blues as rich as sapphires, intense as cerulean and cobalt, greens of verdure ranging from malachite to emerald with veins of citron, and sandalwood and sepia slopes of mountains caressed by darkening shadows, reveal the vistas of nature and sing its divinity.

In the ever dynamic, fragile correlation between man and nature, the human relationship with, and response to colour features paramount, culling forth immediate, and more far-reaching, subtler physiological effects in all living beings. Manifestations of light captured by his lens, a harmony of diverse elements conjoin together in a radiant sunflower in the foreground framed by majestic peaks in the distance, crowned with opalescent bursts of clouds across the sky.

Fox Talbot, founding father of photography, referred to the medium as "nature's pencil", celebrating its effort to portray the purely visual facets of experience with a heightened level of draftsmanship. Photographs possess the singular spell of the instant when they were taken, a twinkling of the eye, which imparts an unusual ability to convey the viewer on a voyage. A fleeting sensation of light affected by its surroundings, an effervescent attempt to illuminate the atmosphere, weld together more than one sensory perception at a time. To this end, Midha endows his work with a personal passion and respect for myriad dimensions of nature and wildlife, his individual meeting with the subjects, be they the eyes of a big cat or bear, a winding river valley, an explosive, fluorescent sunset, a resplendent peak, a fecund forest, a flower or a cloud. Unlike many pioneers of pictoral photography, he does not evacuate reality; rather he focuses more deeply on it, revealing its underlying energy.

Essence of imagery, of reality, of landscape - the distilled notes of ragas modulate like bursts of vivacious, buoyant flora. He forges a peaceful coexistence of forces, communicating the spirit and beauty that envelop and surround him, particularly strong in their composition and use of light, a highest testimony to the creator.

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