Visual Music

Chandra Piyadasa

Chandra Piyadasa, banker by profession, artist at heart and photographer by choice, has long been captivated by the paintings of great artists such as George Keyt; his love for art soon branched out in the direction of photography as a hobby.

Having joined the Photographic Society in 1977, and since progressing in his vocation as a banker, his interest in photography steadily grew and expanded into different disciplines. He began experiments with what fascinated him most – capturing images in black and white.

He has weeded a select set of sixty superb photographic images from the vast number of exposures made over the thirty-plus years of his dabbling in photography. This exhibition - "Visual Music” is yet again in tribute to his idol Ansel Adams who once stated, ‘Listen to the music behind every photograph’. What of his choice of equipment? “Nothing sophisticated; the very basic 35 mm and couple of lenses and a modest digital camera” says Chandra.

The exhibition is open to the public from September 29 to Oct 1 at the Harold Peiris Gallery, Lionel Wendt. Colombo.