DWIH Horizon: Art Meets Science, an exhibition organised by The German House for Research and Innovation (DWIH) in New Delhi, was inaugurated on March 10 by Rainer Schmiedchen, the German consul-general in Calcutta; Anuradha Lohia, vice-chancellor of Presidency University; Frank Allgower, vice-president of DFG (the largest German research funding agency) and director of the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, the University of Stuttgart; artist Eleena Banik; professor Dorothea Wagner, head of the Institute of Theoretical Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Alexander P. Hansen, chairman of the board of DWIH, New Delhi; and German artistic photographer Wolfgang Zurborn. 

The six-day exhibition at the ICCR on 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani included a higher education and research fair, and a photography exhibition. While the higher education and research fair ended on March 11, the photography exhibition titled The Theatre of Real Life will continue till today (March 15).

“We had two workshops — one in Ahmedabad in 2013 and another in Calcutta exactly one year ago. It wasn’t like I wanted to tell the Indian photographers how to photograph India, I was interested in their vision of India. My idea was to help them understand their qualities. It was mainly street photography but different aspects of it,” said photographer Zurborn, who then selected the photographs and installed the show.

Chandreyee Chatterjee