Pondi ART in Pondicherry, India, presents an exhibition by German photographer Andreas Deffner, The Karen on Andaman Islands. Housed in the city’s former distillery, the exhibition examines a little-known Indian community, the Karen.
Deffner’s black-and-white photographs are well-suited to the disused industrial site. The aesthetic is reminiscent of JR, which gives real power to these portraits of members of this small community, which emigrated from Burma in the 1920s to populate the Andaman Islands. Captured with intensity by the photographer, the daily life of these farmers and fishermen in direct contact with nature seems like a paradise lost.
Born in 1959, Andreas Deffner settled in Tamil Nadu.
Pondy ART opened to 2012 to promote photography in Pondicherry. From March 20th to 30th, the association will hold the Pondy Photo festival, of which we’ll provide full coverage.
EXHIBITION
Andreas Deffner: The Karen on Andaman Islands
Through March 10th 2014
Old distillery, Beach road
Pondicherry
India
