A bi-monthly photo magazine presents stories from the city.

There is no dearth of magazines on photography, particularly those that teach amateurs the nuances of photography. But where would you look if you want stories from the city presented visually? Online photo forums perhaps? Photographer Kishor Krishnamoorthi sensed a vacuum in print and the result is Concorde, a bi-monthly city-based magazine that presents photo stories.

The first issue focussed on Chai and the second, with the subtitle Metrostruction, focuses on people who are part of the metro rail project, buildings razed to the ground and people displaced by the metro rail. The first issue, Chai, has photographs shot by Aditya Mopur, Akhil Tandulwadikar, Kishor Krishnamoorthi and Vishnu Oi. The pages narrate the unifying nature of chai across social strata — from GHMC workers in Secunderabad enjoying a chai break to green tea in a mug in a corporate boardroom. A doctor sips chai during a break from an operation in Apollo Hospital; a youngster stays glued to his laptop screen as he awaits his cuppa at Starbucks; and Irani chai and samosa do the rounds in Café Azad-e-Hind at RTC Cross Roads.

The magazine keeps text to a minimum. “The idea is to let the photographs speak for themselves and not have captions that say more than what’s necessary,” says Aditya Mopur.

Metrostruction presents snapshots of buildings in different stages of demolition photographed by Kishor while Suri Vasireddy vividly brings to focus stories of displacement — a few people from the vast workforce employed for the metro rail work who’ve moved to Hyderabad from other cities, and people whose shops have been razed or earmarked for demolition.

Concorde is available through concordezine.com

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Features> MetroPlus> Society / by Sangeetha Devi Dundoo / Hyderabad – September 27th, 2015