Painting with the Camera

If No One Killed Jessica made you think that the protagonist’s sister Sabrina Lall is shorn of all glamour,take a look at art photographer Bonny Hazuria’s depiction of her. A kohl-eyed Lall is draped in a wine-coloured sari and flaunts a diamond necklace. The work is a part of Hazuria’s ongoing exhibition,“Between Heaven and Earth”,at the Visual Arts Gallery,India Habitat Centre,and one of the guests at the opening on Wednesday was Lall,dressed in a pair of skinny jeans with a black tee and boots. Among Hazuria’s other muses in attendance was actor Sushma Seth.

From the walls,hung prints of several famous faces that Hazuria has worked on like Tisca Chopra,fashion designer Malini Ramani and model Kamal Sidhu. “These are people who have fascinated me,” says Hazuria,44.

After shooting a photograph,the image is worked upon on the computer using multiple software and techniques. Hazuria then paints over these with acrylic. “The works blur the line between painting and photography. It has several people flummoxed,” she says. Hazuria learned photography from her father Kitty Hazuria and worked as a photographer with designers JJ Valaya,Ritu Beri,Rina Dhaka,Ashish Soni and Rina Dhaka before she turned her attention to art.

The exhibition is on till February 28