INDIA: In Word and Image « Welcome Books

Entry to the opening at the Art Director's Club

On Monday, September 14, New York City’s Art Director’s Club was the setting for a swirl of color at the opening party for the exhibition, INDIA: In Word and Image, featuring award-winning Eric Meola‘s dazzling color photography drawn from his stunning book.

Selected from the more than two hundred photographs in INDIA, the exhibit features everything from Himalayan monasteries of the north, to the temples of Tamil Nadu in the south, the pageantry of Rajasthan in the west and tea plantations of Darjeerling in the east.

The star of the evening! INDIA creator Eric Meola with fellow photographer Frank Stefanko

At the event, photographers and publishing people mixed with key figures from India’s cultural community in New York, including Ambassador Prabhu Dayal of the Consulate of India, Kalyan Sengupta from INDIA TOURISM, journalists Sreenath Sreenivasan from Columbia University, Deepak Puri from TIME, Inc., and Guarav Verma from the US-India Business Council.

Also spotted were photographers Bert Stern, Barbara Bordnick, Jay Maisel, Pete Turner, Jon Ortner, Richard Berenholtz, Frank Stefanko, Michel Tcherevkoff, designer J.C. Suares and illustrator Paige Peterson.

Photographer Bert Stern and Reine Turner

Dave Metz of DMC Consulting and Barbara Bordnick, photographer of SEARCHINGS from Welcome Books

Photographers Jay Maisel and Joanna McCarthy

Michel Tcherevkoff, photographer of SHOE FLEUR, and friends

Paige Peterson, Illustrator and Vice President, Special Projects at Welcome Books

Welcome’s Publisher, Lena Tabori, chatted with Eugene Mopsik, the Executive Director of ASMP, Steve Inglima from Canon, and Eric Meola, INDIA’s incredible photographer.

Steve Inglima from Canon and Dave Metz from DMC Consulting

Welcome Publisher Lena Tabori, with SEARCHINGS photographer Barbara Brodnick and Welcome's Managing Editor, Natasha Fried

Eugene Mopsik, Executive Director of the American Society of Media Photographers

Hosted by Canon USA and co-sponsored by Consulate General of India, New York, the U.S. – India Business Council, India Tourism New York, and Welcome Books. With special thanks to Kitchens of India and Brandon Remler for the photographs.