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Hindustan TimesWhat are art shows made of? He whispered elated, “I had never dreamt that one day my photograph would hang on the same walls with the painting of master painter Raj Kumar!” A journey of heart and soul For those who know the life and art of Raj Kumar who painted the life of the city like never before, this can well be understood. Way back in 1970 a frail boy from Gurdaspur, named Raj Kumar, came uncertainly to Le Corbusier’s dream city of Chandigarh, hoping to study art. This small town boy was to become one of the finest painters of the city life of Sector 17, where he later worked, from the balloon and lemon sellers to “A Photograph in Autumn”, which captured a couple getting a photograph clicked in the backdrop of the circular shaped KC Cinema, which was later demolished. It was here that Soni realised that there was a candid street photographer hidden in him although he spent long years working as a medical photographer in the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research.
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