Past
closed chapter for Pamela
By Nedra Wickremesinghe
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Pamela then (right)
and now |
She
introduced herself as Pamela Singh at the celebrity event she attended
in Colombo earlier this month, posing for fashion photographers
with easy elegance.
It
was only later examining her photograph that it struck me that Pamela
Singh, photographer and artiste visiting Sri Lanka on a holiday
cum study tour was in fact Pamela Bordes. Pamela Bordes was the
Indian beauty who won the Miss India title in 1982 and then went
on to hit the headlines through her intimate links with British
MPs and Fleet Street editors.
The
media hounded Bordes and as new revelations emerged each day, the
British press was relentless in the pursuit of the ‘Christine
Keeler of the ’80s’. When she could no longer take the
intrusion and invasion into her private life, the Indian beauty
went into self-imposed exile and emerged later as Pamela Singh,
professional photographer.
Her
career as a serious photographer has seen her travel the world,
working in Southern and Eastern Africa. She also studied architectural
design at the Parsons School of Design in New York and later economics
and international relations in Paris.
Talking
to The Sunday Times, just before she left the island, she made it
obvious that the past was a closed chapter. She lives both in New
York and Jaipur and now specializes in art design.
Her
work is mainly in mixed media, and she switches from photography
to painting and sculpture. She works on her own, she says, and her
much-sought after designs are supplied to well known boutiques in
New York. ‘Art pieces’ is how she describes her work,
which comes in many forms, furnishings, fabrics, jewellery and clothes.
An
interest in architectural design was what brought her to Sri Lanka,
seven years after her last visit. “I am fascinated by the
work of the late Geoffrey Bawa,” she says adding that the
legendary architect’s use of light, space and the outdoors
equals the best in the world. |