By SUDHAKAR RAVEENDRANATH India Art Review, August 19, 2021 PhotoMuse, a first-of-its-kind museum dedicated to the art, history and science of photography, is situated in the picturesque Kodaly in Thrissur.  It offers photographers and enthusiasts a venue for creative interaction and more. Kodaly, a tiny, nondescript but idyllic hamlet in Kerala’s Thrissur district, houses India’s first Photography Museum, PhotoMuse. Founded by Unni Krishnan Pulikkal, a physician, the institution functions as a hub for photographers from Kerala and beyond. PhotoMuse is not your run-of-the-mill museum; it is arguably India’s first public museum “dedicated to the art, history and science of photography”. “The idea …

As part of the Cleveland Photo Fest Edition 1, The Foothill Galleries of the Photo-Succession showcased ‘the remarkable photographs of UNNI KRISHNAN PULIKKAL from September 11 – October 8, 2019. Titled ‘TRANSFORMATIONS’, the show featured 30 archival pigments of his series based on putrefied negatives from 1960s. “Dissecting a brick of melded black and white negatives rescued from a vintage Indian photography studio, Unni Krishnan Pulikkal peeled negative from negative to discover the visual secrets that lay within each frame. Unni cleaned over 40 individual negatives, placed each on a piece of backlit glass and photographed them with a macro lens.  According …

West Meets East Platinum Photography by Clevelander Herb Ascherman and Kerala (India)photographer Dr. Unni Krishnan Pulikkal               Featuring the work of the renowned Cleveland photographer Herb Ascherman and internationally exhibited Indian photographer Unni Krishnan Pulikkal, this exhibition highlights a range of subject matters from Herb’s series of landscapes from the Forest at Fontainbleu and 19th Century style Flower Arrangements to Unni’s surrealistic and abstract imagery captured in India. Rendered in classic platinum, both photographer’s work takes on ethereal qualities of light and depth not seen in any other photographic medium. Through the Platinum process, the …

Herb Ascherman and Unni Krishnan Pulikkal Platinum Photographers from Cleveland and Kerala (India) Opening Friday, August 3rd 6:00 pm Exhibition from August 4th – September 1st 2018               Featuring the work of the renowned Cleveland photographer Herb Ascherman and internationally exhibited Indian photographer Unni Krishnan Pulikkal, this exhibition highlights a range of subject matters from Herb’s series of landscapes from the Forest at Fontainbleu and 19th Century style Flower Arrangements to Unni’s surrealistic and abstract imagery captured in India. Rendered in classic platinum, both photographer’s work takes on ethereal qualities of light and depth …

  Descriptive Title A visual research on the influence of education, cultural background and Exposure to fine arts on how individuals perceive and interpret singular or juxtaposed photographic imagery. Background The word Diptych comes from two Greek words ‘di’, meaning two, and ‘tyche’, meaning fold. Basically a diptych is any two flat objects attached at a hinge. The word was first used in 1622* (Merriam-Webster) even though Ivory Notebook Diptychs were in prevalence right from the 6th Century Rome. Diptych paintings were common in the medieval period. Altar pieces in diptych, triptych and polyptych  formats were  also prevalent in many …

The path-breaking exhibition of photography organized by PHOTOMUSE – The Museum of Photography opened at Kerala Lalitha Kala Academy, Thrissur, The show titled ‘Open Origins – Open Ends’ features 40 photographs by 40 Kerala-born photographers living around the Nation and the middle-east. The specialty of the show is the exquisite display in which the elegantly framed pictures have been grouped into 12 separate installations representing 12 concepts, each one being presented on 12 walls of the gallery. The unique display has already received much acclaim from the viewers as well as from the critic and art historian Vijayakumar Menon who …

Hello friends, Delighted to share the news that I am visiting Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, from 24th to 28th November, 2015, to do a workshop on ‘Understanding Composition & Natural Light’ for an esteemed group of photographers of ‘FSO Muscat’. Looking forward to it! Happiness to you! unni