TEDxYouth@Chennai - Hari Menon - Close to the Gods December 27, 2011

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Standing tall at 6 '3, it is not difficult to notice Hari Menon roaming around with a camera trying to capture nature's bounty through his lens. An instinctive photographer, his magical touch is evident in the numerous photos he has taken ranging from stills to faces, and abstract to reality. He is known to capture images from day to day life and render them immortal. His play of colours and shapes in the photos he clicks talk deeply about his passion and love for photography. He hails from a beautiful village near Cochin called North Paravur. Some of his prominent works includes " Close to the gods " documenting the dynamic ritual art form Theyyam of north Kerala,and " People from the peak " photo stories from the Himalayas that pictured the perpetual life styles of the common folks of the mountain.

His works have been published in various international magazines and books. Currently working more into the contemporary possibilities of picturising Theyyam not just as a spiritual being but as the reincarnation of Human Gods of the malabar. His eye for detail is completely self taught and it is his love fora the unknown and the need to capture it through the visual medium that made him follow his dreams to become a freelance travel photographer. There are limitations to the use of language, but for Hari it is through the photographs that he speaks.

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