BENGALURU: Pictures of Kashmir using football as the theme and the youth taking to the game in the valley have been captured by noted photographer Prashant Godbole who has given a diferrent connotation to words like ‘riots’ and ‘hostile environment’ through his oeuvre.
“Three days I toured around the valley and this is what I noticed,” Godbole told reporters showing the pictures of young boys and girls taking up football passionately.
A picture titled ‘Training camp’ is of youths at a football training camp on the outskirts of Srinagar.
‘The Rioters’ is a photo of boys playing football on the narrow street of Srinagar interrupting pedestrian movement.
A picture, ‘Distracted youth’, refers to boys focused on football and not attentive to other works.
“The lost cause’ is a picture of a young shepherd holding a football lost in thoughts and forgetting to take care of a herd of sheep behind him.
An important picture is of ‘civil war’ where security personnel are seen playing football taken from a Kashmiri boy.
His work, titled ‘Real Kashmir’, is on display at the Rangoli Art Centre on the MG Road boulevard at a photo exhibition jointly sponsored by Adidas and Real Kashmir Football Club (RKFC).
“Football is picking up…” Afshan Ashiq, captain and goalkeeper of Jammu and Kashmir Womens Football team, said. (AGENCIES)