Gulf News
(Dubai, United Arab Emirates) / Oct 25, 2004 /
Children's art appeals for world
peace / Staff Report
/
"The Dubai Humanitarian City is supporting
'World boys and girls art exhibition,' held by the Soka Gakkai International
(Japan) in Dubai," reports the news service. "The exhibition is an appeal
for global peace and friendship from those with the greatest stake in the
future: the children of the world. The event is held in cities worldwide
in cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization... 'We are happy to support the exhibition as it brings the
message of global peace during Ramadan,' said Ahmad Bin Al Shaikh, managing
partner of the [Dubai Shopping Centre, where the event was held]."
The Rising
Nepal (Kathmandu, Nepal)
Tuesday,
November 9, 2004
Article url: http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/pageloader.php?file=2004/11/09/topstories/main12
Current News: Dr
Ikeda captures human mood in his photographs
By Ronesha Sharma
KATHMANDU, Nov. 8: “Dialogue with
Nature” is the exhibition of photographs that portrays the link of nature,
people and society viewed from Dr Daisaku Ikeda’s heart. The exhibition
had its debut in Japan in 1982, and the first international showing of
his 105 photographs was held in 1988 in Paris, France. Since then, it has
toured 73 cities in 34 countries and touched the hearts of 7.6 million
viewers.
Now the exhibition is being held at
the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Peace Centre, Bafal, Kalanki, from
November 6th to November 21st. The opening hour is 10 am to 5:30 pm.
The inauguration ceremony of the exhibition
was on November 6. It stated with a light-hearted welcome song by the members
of the SGI, after which Vice Chancellor of the Royal Nepal Academy, Dr
Basudev Tripathi gave a short introduction on Dr Daisaku Ikeda’s work and
the exhibition.
This was followed by a dance performances
called “Manju Shree” by Deepak Bajracharya, a well-known dancer, and “Tamang
Selo” by the members of SGI, taught by Deepak Bajracharya himself. Dr.
Daisaku Ikeda is president of the SGI, a UN registered NGO. He has also
made his mark as a poet laureate, Buddhist philosopher, author, and a peace
proponent. Although he has not taken any professional training in photography,
his photographs stir the hearts of the audience. He says this may be so
because he uses his heart to photograph and not the viewfinder.
His motto is to capture the “Decisive
Moment”. Guided by the thought “Photography is the art of transmitting
moments of life, its drama and vivid changes”, Dr Ikeda has taken these
photos from his hotel, while in flight, and car during his travel to different
parts of the world in effort to promote peace, art, culture, and education.
The collection of photos include the
work of nature and locations in places such as Canada, Italy, Japan, Egypt,
Turkey, Bangkok, South Korea, Russia, China, India, Spain, Sweden, Hong
Kong, Malaysia and South Korea.
The photographs allow the viewers
to see the beauty of nature and the captions describe Dr Ikeda’s perspective
so perfectly that the combination of both becomes mesmerising.
The photos and his poems encourage
anyone to look into nature more deeply to understand its beauty and depth.
Not only does it touch the hearts of the viewers but it also makes us realise
that to see such beauty one has to view from the heart and not through
the eyes only.
(Ms. Sharma is an apprentice with
The Rising Nepal)
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