How bored are you of seeing airbrushed photographs of exotic, foreign locations rendered lifelessly on glossy magazines? This is exactly what advertising professional Viswaprasad Raju sought to rectify in his travelogue Via Pen and Ink, in which he collated travel sketches spanning 10 countries.
From the national parks of Central India to southeast Asian cities; from Cape Town to Oxford; from Hyderabad to Dubai, the book tries to capture the moments, landmarks and people. Most of the works, he says, were drawn on location, with the sketches offering a very human perspective of the places he has been to. “This enables the reader to take a welcome break from the photography-led imagery of today's times,” he says.
In the book, the author sketches images of penguins and ostriches from South Africa, the city of spires that is Oxford, the cobbled pathways of Switzerland, of peacocks, birds, jungle huts and faces that quintessentially capture a geography's soul.
