Jazz Legend, Louiz Banks Inaugurated India’s first ever Music Concert Photography Exhibition by music journalist Verus Ferreira, opened on Saturday evening 16th November 2024, at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Bandra Reclamation, Bandra (West). India’s first ever Music Concert Photography Exhibition by music journalist Verus Ferreira, opened on Saturday evening 16th November 2024, at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Bandra Reclamation, Bandra (West), Mumbbai.
For some, photography is a hobby, to others it’s a profession. Some love the technology side of photography, some shooting for weddings, documenting for newspapers, while a music lover loves taking pictures to capture their artists on camera for posterity. Ferreira is the latter.
Welcoming the gathering of friends, family and well-wishers, compere Kamakshi Fernandes stated that Verus Ferreira had painstakingly done a lot of hard work over the years to bring to a close what we see here today.
Speaking further, she stated that unlike wildlife, portrait, fashion, adventure, architecture, nature, sports and food, among many kinds of photography, music photography has never ever been given its due importance, despite the fact that there are so many Indian as well as International artists visiting India and performing in the country in the last 10 – 15 years.
On display are photos of artists like The Vengaboys, Steve Vai, Michael Learns to Rock, Joss Stone, Slash of Guns N’ Roses, among many others, to Indian acts like Anoushka Shankar, Colonial Cousins, Deepa Nair, Usha Uthup, Louiz Banks, Zakir Hussain, Lucky Ali, Rahul Sharma, among many others.
Louiz Banks was very pleased to see the work done by Verus Ferreira. He remarked, “It is great to see how you have managed to capture so many amazing artists in action. Great photographs. I really love your work. I have never seen anything like this before. Keep it up and continue with what you are doing”.
The Music Concert Photography is a unique exhibition featuring 64 photographs of music concerts over a period of 11 years from 2013 to 2024, and was a dream project of Ferreira’s, stemming from his work as a music journalist over the last 32 years.
Exhibition Dates: 16th November 2024 to 22nd November 2024
Time: 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m
