Art
Hong Kong’s 3D Museum features eye-popping interactive art
Photographers have a different way of looking at the mundane, and with the magic of their lens and their craft, they transform what can seem ordinary into photographs that fill you with wonder, happiness, grief, angst and yearning. One such project is ‘In the City, a Library’ by Chirodeep Chaudhuri, photographer and author of the critically acclaimed book ‘A Village In Bengal: Photographs and an Essay’ and Jerry Pinto, author of 'Em and the Big Hoom'. The project showcases a collection of photographs of tattered books with creased, yellowed and faded pages that reminds you of an era gone by, when the search for knowledge used to end in dusty bookshelves of libraries, instead of a mere tap on the smartphone screen. Choudhuri took 18 months to take these pictures of books in The People’s Free Reading Room and Library, a public library in Dhobi Talao in Old Mumbai, of which Pinto became the trustee in 2015. It is a very old institution and houses books and magazines...
