Professions
"You can be the ray of hope"
Armin Turel's campaign "Save the Parsee community" has been lauded for its photographic content and message
"The Parsi community... has come to a point of standstill...no progress...The Parsi youth need to come out of the rut and restart the journey...It is the responsibility of each and every Parsi to take part in the revival of their most beautiful community...The whole campaign - "Save the Parsee community" - revolves around the idea that...the community is shrouded in darkness and you can be the ray of hope," explains 21-year-old Armin Nairyosang Turel.
From the different incisive black and white photographs that constituted her campaign, 12 were selected for display at the National Centre for Performing Arts to coincide with the UNESCO PARZOR sponsored celebration of 3,000 years of Parsi culture. One of the exhibits showed the facade of the Seth Shapurji Sorabji Kappawala Agiary at Tardeo which bears a replica of a scene from Persepolis where rulers come offering obeisance to the great King Darayus. "Where once you led, you now don't even walk," is Armin's interpretation of the visual.
In another photograph, an empty settee stands in solitary isolation in an almost vacant room. The play of light and darkness is used to capture the stark reality. "A fading picture"... "Losing vision"... "Resting in peace"... are some of the many captions used for this series of photographs.
The next set of photographs introduce an element of hope, a possibility. "On the verge of existence"... "Turning over an old leaf"... "A subtle chance"... show this progression in thought. Finally comes the willingness to "Nudge into the future."
"The campaign is aimed at motivating the silent youth of the community into action and to bring out their true spirit and nature of belonging," conveys Turel who had taken up this project when in her final year (2002-03) of studies at the Sophia Polytechnic. To earn her diploma in commercial art she chose to dwell on the theme of unity within the community, having been inspired by the exhibition of community portraits at the National Gallery of Modern Art last year.
From the different incisive black and white photographs that constituted her campaign, 12 were selected for display at the National Centre for Performing Arts to coincide with the UNESCO PARZOR sponsored celebration of 3,000 years of Parsi culture. One of the exhibits showed the facade of the Seth Shapurji Sorabji Kappawala Agiary at Tardeo which bears a replica of a scene from Persepolis where rulers come offering obeisance to the great King Darayus. "Where once you led, you now don't even walk," is Armin's interpretation of the visual.
In another photograph, an empty settee stands in solitary isolation in an almost vacant room. The play of light and darkness is used to capture the stark reality. "A fading picture"... "Losing vision"... "Resting in peace"... are some of the many captions used for this series of photographs.
The next set of photographs introduce an element of hope, a possibility. "On the verge of existence"... "Turning over an old leaf"... "A subtle chance"... show this progression in thought. Finally comes the willingness to "Nudge into the future."
"The campaign is aimed at motivating the silent youth of the community into action and to bring out their true spirit and nature of belonging," conveys Turel who had taken up this project when in her final year (2002-03) of studies at the Sophia Polytechnic. To earn her diploma in commercial art she chose to dwell on the theme of unity within the community, having been inspired by the exhibition of community portraits at the National Gallery of Modern Art last year.
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