SZABIST organize photographic competition

Jumbo Editorial Team

Over 100 students from SZABIST, Karachi University, Indus Valley School of Arts and Architecture (IVSAA) and Lahore University of Management Sciences took pictures on ‘View from a Window’ in the photographic competition to be judged by eminent names in photography, Tapu Javeri, Kohi Mari and Amean J.

Mina Kidwai, the organiser of the event, disclosed that the students were given two weeks to photograph and then submit their work. The pictures could be taken by a DSLR, digital camera, and a mobile phone. 

 The pictures taken from a DSLR were developed and printed while those from digital cameras and mobile phones were displayed on digital screens. 

The winner in the DSLR category will get a prime lens, while the winners in other categories will get a digital camera and a new mobile phone.

 Meanwhile the students displayed their creativity in no uncertain manner. A frail-looking girl in a red dress with a camera in her hand continued to stare at the pictures she had taken. The first one was of a carpenter working oblivious to the world and the second was of a lonely tree.

“I took the picture of this elderly man from a window of a fort where we stayed at Khairpur. I tried to capture the isolation of the tree and how the carpenter was unaffected by our presence,” Zeest Shabbir, a student SZABIST, explained. 

A second-year student at IVSAA, Taha Bin Khalid, attempted to capture a hen’s view as she looked out from her cage at the people going by their business. 

“The concept behind my photos was the view from the eyes of a hen. I used the theme to try and show how a hen might look at the outside world. It doesn’t even release that this may be the last time. Someone can pull it out of the cage and slaughter it anytime,” he stated. 

Mudassir Iqbal, also from SZABIST, took the picture of a slum just across a big under-construction house, trying to depict the difference between the poor and the rich. His other picture was the view of a batsman from his helmet as he waits to hit the ball.