People and Water
‘People and Water’ consisted of photographs by Jyoti Bhatt and T. S. Satyan, taken between 1968 and 1984. It gave a glimpse into people and their relationship with water. This was from the collection of the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Bangalore, The T. S. Satyan Archive and a gift of the T. S. Satyan Family Trust.
About the Artists
Jyotindra Manshankar Bhatt (12 March 1934), better known as Jyoti Bhatt, is an Indian artist best known for his modernist work in painting and printmaking and also his photographic documentation of rural Indian culture. He studied painting under N. S. Bendre and K.G. Subramanyan at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University (M.S.U.), Baroda. Later he studied fresco and mural painting at Banasthali Vidyapith in Rajasthan, and in the early 1960s went on to study at the Academia di Belle Arti in Naples, Italy, as well the Pratt Institute in New York.[3] He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2019.
T. S. Satyan is one of India’s earliest photojournalists. In the course of a long and distinguished career spanning over six decades - he photographed political luminaries, royalty, famous personalities and celebrities; chronicled some of India’s most significant historical moments and influential figures; as well as produced a large number of landscape and architectural photographs. However, it is his documentation of the anonymous ‘ordinary man’ that is central to his humanistic vision and that dominates his photographic archive.
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