Chandigarh: Portrait of A City

Photoink presents Chandigarh:Portrait of a city, an art exhibition by Manuel Bougot. Paris-based photographer Manuel Bougot is experienced in cinema, fashion photography and advertising. His interest in Le Corbusier’s architecture began in the 1980s, when he worked on Caroline Maniaque’s thesis in architecture on the Jaoul Houses built in 1954 in Neuilly, France. From 2006, he started photographing Chandigarh as a means to understand Le Corbusier, the urban designer, and his philosophy about architecture and modernism. The idea of creating Chandigarh, a new city post-Independence, free from the shackles of history, and a symbol of modernity came from Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1949, on Nehru’s invitation, Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier began his Chandigarh experiment, which became an extraordinary laboratory of architecture and town planning.

Chandigarh: Portraits of a City, 8 September to 27 October, Photoink, MGF Hyundai Building, Ground Floor, 1, Jhandewalan, Faiz Road, Delhi. For more information visit www.photoink.net