Written by Pallavi Chattopadhyay |Published: February 20, 2018 11:42:20 pm
Portraits of the Past
At the third edition of India Arch Dialogue in Delhi, photographers and architects lay out architectural marvels dotted around the world.
In 2009, Delhi-based ragpicker-turned-photographer Vicky Roy was one among the four photographers chosen by US-based Maybach Foundation in a worldwide competition to photograph the reconstruction of the World Trade Centre (WTC) Complex. Upon landing in New York, as he watched claws of large excavating machines at the site removing debris — steels rods, concrete blocks and a sea of broken glasses, Roy would often hear passers-by speak of how many victims’ bodies were still being found in the rubble, left behind from the disastrous 9/11 attacks in New York. He captured a digger removing the wreckage, and a row of workers laying the foundation of steel rods for the new towers. His photographs, which captured the faceless spirits involved in the rebuilding of WTC, now hang in the pitch dark black interiors of Delhi’s Ojas Art Gallery as part of the exhibition titled ‘Moments in Architecture’.
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