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Let there be light
The dark grey backdrop looks like sculpted clouds of an impending storm, the green patina of the sculpture, made from sheets of hammered copper, captures the available light and the raised flame atop, covered in 24K carat gold, emanates a faint glimmer of hope.
It is an image sucked in by thousands of touristy cameras that open and close their apertures before it every day and night. But in the eyes of G Satheesh Nair, the Statue of Liberty seems to have acquired a sense of the zeitgeist, accentuating the enduring symbolism its maker Frederic Auguste Bartholdi might have assigned. It is a photograph that recently won him second place in the architecture/historic category of the International Photo Awards (IPA), one of the top four global prizes that the community of photographers looks up to.