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MindfodderWhen Bob Dylan wrote “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” in the 60s, just before the Cuban missile crisis, he couldn’t have known how much it would resonate with later generations. But photographer Mark Edwards saw the song’s prescience, and matched each lyric with photographs from over 150 countries to capture our world’s struggles with lack of power, forest fires, poverty, pollution/waste, resource loss, and animal extinction.
Hard Rain is now a presentation, and exhibition, and a book, and a Web site. The exhibition, a 50 metre banner, has been shown to over 10 million policymakers, businessmen, and others across the world.
Edwards doesn’t just stun you out of complacency with his photographs, but also presents real solutions people can take home. One such example in Hard Rain: A photo essay that shows how a community in South India reinvented rural education, reforested its valley, and returned to organic farming over 40 years.
The exhibition is coming to India soon, courtesy the British Council. In Mumbai, the plan is that it will be part of the Celebrate Bandra Festival in mid-November, with a few related events around it, like street plays by schools, an art mural, and a film workshop.
There’s a possibility the exhibition may go to Kolkata and Bangalore too, and that Edwards will be doing a lecture tour that includes Delhi as well. Keep a look out at the British Council website.
First Published: Oct 26, 2009, 08:02
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