The exhibition started on Friday at Agartala Press Club with 53 photographs of his visit at London during the Olympics in July. Chakraborty reached London on July 23 and covered a wide array of events of the Olympics. He came back home on August 14. Saraju Chakraborty’s visit to the Olympics has been the first visit ever for any scribe from Tripura to represent in the world’s largest sports event.
Speaking to Tripurainfo.com on the last eve of his exhibition at Agartala Press Club, Chakraborty said, “Most of my photographs exhibited here are those which aren’t available anywhere in the news. It’s not about excellence or rarity but more about perception. Any professional photojournalist wouldn’t probably click the Tower Bridge of London or the Wimbledon Tennis Stadium for nothing. But for people who aspire to do something in media, the very sight of a live presence in front of the Lords or the Wimbledon might be breathtaking”, he said. “My photographs are a memoir of my visit from Tripura as the first scribe in the Olympics and not any testimony of photography. I am a scribe, not a photojournalist by the way”, quipped Chakraborty.
Eminent journalists and editors like Subal Kumar Dey, Sanit Debroy visited the exhibition on its debut day while Chief Minister Manik Sarkar paid a visit on the concluding eve. He had a stroll around the photographs in the exhibition and highly appreciated the endeavour. The visitor’s book of the exhibition has still got a comment – “I am highly impressed by visiting this exhibition” with Manik Sarkar signed below.
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