Kathmandu, March 25 -- Sravasti Ghosh Dastidar's photographic exhibition 'Soul in Shades' at Siddhartha Art Gallery was pushed back by one year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is finally being inaugurated on 26 March, just as Nepal's health authorities are once again on high alert for the second wave coming from India.

Dastidar is originally from Kolkata, and is well-travelled, having lived in Mumbai, Colombo, Manila and Brunei. She has curated her own photography from all her globe-trotting for this week-long exhibition that reaches the viewer with powerful dreamlike images.

The photographs use stark black and white to play with symmetry and shadow that force us to see soaring human-made structures and nature's grandeur in new lig...