"On May 15, Portugal’s Museu do Oriente opened the exhibition, Foto Arte Ganesh: Goa, Photography and Memory. Curated by Professor Rosa Maria Perez, senior researcher at Lisbon’s Centre for Research in Anthropology, with assistance by Douglas Santos da Silva, the exhibition focuses on the work of late photographer Krishna Navelcar whose studio once thrived on Rua José Falcão, a bylane of Goa’s capital city, Panjim. Although Navelcar’s Foto Estúdio Ganesh may now only be a distant memory, what the exhibition reveals is the legacy this Goan photographer created. Navelcar’s career bridged the periods of Portuguese and, then, Indian rule in Goa, spanning the 1950s to the 1980s.In an interview, Perez offers insights into Navelcar’s extensive oeuvre, themes of the exhibition and what it means for his pictures to be on display in Lisbon more than a half-century after the end of Portuguese rule in Goa." (Benedito Ferrão)

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Photography,Exhibition,Goa