Can’t mistake art for porn

Twenty works by famous photographer, the late Bandi Rajan Babu, from the series Nude in Nature were taken off at the Indian Photography Festival. When Bandi Ramana, the photographer’s son, visited the State Art Gallery just before the exhibition was launched on Thursday, he found that all of Rajan’s works were taken down. “The photos were all nudes so the gallery authorities felt that they were obscene,” explains Ramana. “There was an empty section where the photos stood....