A pictorial essay on high courts and Supreme Court

Nagpur | Sunday | 23rd September, 2018

Summary:

Nagpur: After his book ‘A Poem in Stone’, capturing the beauty of Nagpur High Court, photographer Vinay Thakur has expanded his area of work to include all the 36 high courts in the country and the Supreme Court in a recently published coffee table book titled ‘Architecture of Justice’. The entire pictorial content of the book is of the pictures taken by Thakur. The 240-page book was released by the President recently.Thakur waded through 10,000 pictures taken by him from February to July 2016 to compile the book which is a virtual walk-through of the high courts and Supreme Court and captures the architectural beauty of these structures built during the British era. “One such Mumbai firm has ordered 200 copies to send abroad as the book has archival value,” he says. “We have taken panoramic shots, wide angels of each building and have tried to capture the character of the building..