These kids shoot some great sights

Anahita Mukherji I TNN

Mumbai: Camera in hand, Mohammad Mustakim, a municipal school student from Govandi, on Tuesday captured the patterns made by the sun’s rays—which filtered through a canopy of leaves—on a man taking a nap at the Horniman Circle Garden. Gayatri Shinde, another civic school student from Powai, was busy taking pictures of butterflies and birds at the garden. Rahul Kshirsagar, the son of a painter who lives in a Bandra slum, said he thoroughly enjoyed shooting the ducks in the garden pond.

They were part of a group of civic school students who received lessons in photography from noted city photographer Shreekant Malushte. The initiative was taken by the Sangeet Kala Academy, an organisation set up by the BMC education department to encourage underprivileged students. Malushte taught photography to 15 students on Tuesday and will teach another batch on Wednesday. He has been conducting such classes on a regular basis.

“Photography is a skill that can help these children earn some money,’’ said Malushte, retired head of the physics department at Maharashtra College. The children also aimed their cameras at the urban landscape around the Asiatic Library. Some of the civic school teachers even posed on the library steps for the kids.

SAY CHEESE: A teacher poses as BMC school students get photography lessons