MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur. Telegraph picture

Berhampur, Jan. 24: Medicos displayed their creativity at the two-day annual photo and art exhibition by students of the MKCG Medical College and Hospital here.

The exhibition began today.

“Medical students don’t lack creativity. There are many students who are extremely talented. It is for this reason that we have arranged the exhibition,” said Satya Prakash Mahapatra, fourth-year MBBS student and academic secretary of the students’ union, said.

This year, about 400 photographs and 100 paintings by 20 students are on display at the exhibition, which is open to the public. Most of the photographs are landscape and nature.

House surgeons Nihar Ranjan Jena and Abhisekh Mishra, final-year students Satish Swain, Pragyan Priyadarsini, Sumant Herenz and T. Sitam Kumar, fourth-year students Agniswar Mukherjee and Soumyasri Bahalya and third-year students G.T. Aditya Prasad and Debasis Giri have contributed their photographs for the exhibition.

A painting by Rajaram Swain, a third-year MBBS student, has impressed many viewers.

“Durga, an acrylic painting on canvas by Rajaram, is extraordinary. I still don’t believe a medical student can paint so well,” said 41-year-old artist Pratap Kishore Bishoyi.

Around 20 paintings by Swain are on display at the museum.

Rajaram, a native of Puri town, said the painting of Durga was an old one. “I had painted it when I was in Plus Two. I started painting when I was a Class V student,” he said, adding that painting was a passion for him.