Mysuru:
Mysuru’s famous wrestler Shankar Charavarthy (Dasara Kesari, Darasara Kanteerava and Dasara Kumar a award winners and currently employed with CARP, Mysuru) and Vinod (a former University of Mysore wrestler and an M.PEd student at the Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, have appeared in the front cover of world famous photographer Tomasz Gudzowaty’s photo book ‘Beyond the Body’ which released in Europe last month. Both the wrestlers are the products of well known wrestling coach L. Manjappa.
Tomasz Gudzowaty shot the wrestling sequences at the Goapalaswamy Awara Garadi in Nala Beedi in city during 2006 and also in 2008. The project was co-ordinated by C.K. Muralidharan, city’s freelance sports journalists. A total sequence of 12 photos were shot in Mysuru for a story on “Nada Kusti” which won the third prize in the World Press Photo contest in Amsterdam held in 2006.
The book ‘Beyond the Body’ has been edited by Nan Goldin a famous American photojournalist and the book has black and white photographs of Tomasz Gudwowaty’s works in India (five projects- Nada Kusti-Mysuru, Kalaripayattu & Women’s Boxing- Kerala, Yoga (with Mysuru Yoga artists shot in Varnasi), Urban Golf in India (shot with caddies in Mumbai) and abroad in China, Mexico, Mongolia, USA & Japan).
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / Saturday – February 06th, 2016