peaush panesar

The serendipitous photographer

“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.” However, it is not an ordinary task but takes a deep understanding of the subject and the object that need to be captured. Peaush Panesar, a lenseman from Chandigarh possesses same power and even beyond to leave people

contemplate on the predicament of women in our society. Negating the conventional rules and

divorcing his family business soon Peaush picked up photography as his vocation. He made camera as his instrument to show people what often gets

disdained. His work reflects on the sad predicament of women. It serves as a mouth piece for the voice of women which seldom gets a platform to vent out her pain, agony, sorrow and joy.

His work is memento mori. As to take a photograph he participates in another person’s (especially women here) mortality, vulnerability, mutability.

Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.

Being concept – based photography as forte,

talented lenseman tries to create drama in his work; he hopes and tries to make the statement a picture can tell a thousand words, but a few words can change its story come true by brining change in the conditions of women in our society.

His efforts for bringing about the have been recognized as his exhibition Solace in solicitude held at historic Gaiety won great appreciation. The Women Cell', dedicated to the journey of a woman, her

sufferings and status in today's world; found many admirers, including Department of Language, Art and Culture, Himachal Pradesh, which exhibited the pictures at Gaiety Theatre, Shimla, in 2013. Later, new frames were added to the collection that was shot in places like Jaisalmer, Manali, Dagshai and Shimla. His work was visible in two exhibitions held in Chandigarh in 2013 and 2014.