The Dhaka Times Desk Tony Meneguzzo is a fashion photographer from Italy. He has 30 years of experience photographing Milan beauties on the ramp. Suddenly felt like a little different taste! He came to India. The subject of his work here is the cow! Yes, Tony Meneguzzo took all the wonderful pictures of the cows. Today in our report all those pictures and the story behind the pictures will come up.
Tony Meneguzzo suddenly wanted to leave Milan's beautiful ramp models and come to India to photograph exotic cows. As thought and action, Tony came to India and spent almost 6 years plowing the streets of different provinces of India and taking pictures of various cows in various costumes. In 6 years he has photographed more than 100 cows.
In India, cows are considered to be sacred gods, so the different values of cows in India are at the same time the cows are decorated in different costumes. Tony took pictures of the very cows that were dressed up for various occasions in honor of their owners. Tony had to wait a long time to take different pictures of the cows. There have been times when it took Tony a long 20 days to photograph a particular cow in a particular pose. But Tony is not at all reluctant to spend so much time. According to him, it takes days to get an expression, but what comes out of the wait on camera is truly amazing.
Tony himself said, “What I found in the ramp models, I found in these Indian cows. The cows' slender curved legs, and their huge enchanting eyes, perfectly matched the beautiful ramp models in Milan."
He further said, “When I was photographing models, I had to click the camera thousands of times. By clicking several times, I would get a picture of my mind. Similarly, here too I had to wait for a long time to get a great picture to photograph the cows.”
Tony travels to remote villages in India to photograph cows. However, the villagers never let Tony down, as everyone welcomed him wherever he went to photograph the cows. They took pictures of their cows with interest.
Villagers consider their cows as sacred, so on various festivals they take care of the cows and bathe them and decorate them with flowers and colorful cloths. And Tony waits for this opportunity. He took pictures of all the beautiful cows on his camera and projected them on a white canvas in a wonderful way.
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For now, Tony Meneguzzo is done photographing himself, the cows. He is now busy with the exhibition of these films. But his next objective is a film about village robbers. That's why he will move to Argentina. There he would spend time with village bandits and research their lifestyles and take rare photographs.
Source: The Guardian
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