Au naturale

UK based photographer Tim Hall urges you to move away from urban spaces and instead revel in the beauty and spirituality of nature in his new photographic exhibition

When photographer Tim Hall titles his latest work of art "Escape" he literally means for you to escape to another world through his photographs.

His latest collection, displaying at Tasveer art gallery, shows stark and breathtaking images of nature at its best. "I feel a great sense of freedom when I am out of the city and amongst nature.



My aim is to take the viewer through the window of the picture and into a world away from their immediate surroundings perhaps to a place in their memory or a journey in their mind, Hall told us in an email interview from the UK.

Hall, who has showed at Bangalore three years back, has put up some of his best works from the past five years this time around.

The collection captures nature in all its glory with sand dunes, snow clad peaks, green valleys and tumultuous sea waves.

The dune images came out of a trip to the Sahara Desert in 2004 where Hall wandered through the dunes looking for beautiful shapes and patterns.
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The seascapes are collected over a couple of years from the coast of England and shots of mountains are from Austria where he skiied.
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"I have tried to capture images of the place that people know but don't expect them to look like that, "he says.

According to Hall, he was a traveller first and photography came to him as second nature. He has been influenced by travellers such as Wilfred Thesiger, travel writers like Paul Theroux and photographers like Henry Cartier Bresson.

Hall has had several unusual encounters on hisu00a0 photographic journeys. He has travelled extensively through war ravaged Burma deep into the jungle where he was invited to participate in a tribal custom that involved drinking blood from a pig's bladder. He has also trekked on skiies across the Alps in Switzerland.

"I feel a great uplifting of my spirits when I am surrounded by nature, a kind of euphoria and excitement. It's a moment in time when I don't feel the need for anything else other than the moment," Hall says.

At Tasveer, Sua House, Kasturba Road
On till June 26, 6 to 8 pm
Call 99862 84251