Vision In Frames And Paint

Conceptual photographer, Diwan Manna is all set to organise a major international photography competition themed around the Partition this year.

- Sukant Deepak

The conversation starts with kabaddi and hockey he played during childhood in Punjab’s Bareta town where he was born. It then shifts to Ramlila, where he played both Ram and Laxman. He seldom mixed up lines.

In between his ambitious plans for Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi(PLKA), which he is now heading as its President, Chandigarh-based conceptual photographer Diwan Manna also curses that not many shops in Chandigarh can boast of good-quality samosas.

This 59-year-old, who passed out in 1982 after completing his five-year diploma in painting from Government College of Art in Chandigarh wanted to take up cinematography after religiously watching world cinema. “And that is how photography happened,” he says.