Helga Paris’ photos spanning over 30 years are on display at a city museum
Helga Paris' photos spanning over 30 years are on display at a city museum
Hyderabad: Photographer Helga Paris’ monochrome shots of East Germany and Berlin portray at once a quaint and realistic surrounding which despite wars, suffering and destruction knew how to move on. A collection of her photographs shot between 1968-1996, curated by her son Robert Zayd Paris, is currently on display in the city.
Helga, born in 1938, was a fashion design student in Berlin, where she met her husband, who was a professor at the college she studied. “My father’s friends were all creative minded and one of them, a filmmaker, on seeing the photos that my mom shot of me and my siblings, encouraged her to take up photography.
That was how it all started,” says Robert. Shot over three decades, we find photos of children, neighbours, trash collectors, women working in garment factories and of course, Helga herself.
Robert, an architectural photographer settled in Kerala, remembers his first camera: “While growing up, I found a lot of buildings in Berlin that were almost dilapidated. I once requested my mother to shoot these structures and she gave me a small camera and said, ‘Why don’t you go ahead and do it?’”
Today, Helga, 76, doesn’t pick up the camera unless she particularly wants to. But all the photos displayed at the Salar Jung Museum till December 20 were reprinted by her, at her personal studio in Berlin.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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