The Gazebo Gazette
PASS CHRISTIAN (GG) — The Pass Christian Public Library and the Friends of the Pass Christian Library are pleased to sponsor the Opening Reception for My Silk Road—Photographic Exhibit which will include a Gallery Talk by the photographer, Dr. Ishrat Syed on Tuesday, June 16th at 6 p.m. in the Conference Room of the Pass Christian Public Library. My Silk Road will be on display from May 22nd until September 16th during regular library hours.
Ishrat Syed is a pediatric and general surgeon who resides in Long Beach, Mississippi. The My Silk Road—Photographic Exhibit recently concluded a successful stint at the Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai, India. Dr Syed is also an author. He and the pediatric surgeon Dr Kalpana Swaminathan, have been writing together for over 20 years under the pen name Kalpish Ratna.
For Dr. Syed, the act of looking is inseparable from the act of care. His photographs are not merely visual records; they are sites where history, geography, sociology, anthropology and spirituality intersect. Each frame—whether from Samarkand, Bukhara and Tashkent or from Mumbai or Mandu or the Mississippi Gulf Coast—carries these layered engagements, asking not just to be seen, but read. What viewers will encounter in the exhibition is not merely a series of photographs, but a way of being in the world—attentive, questioning, and quietly resistant. (Yogesh Pawar, Hindustan Times, March 18th, 2026).
To quote the artist: “The camera is just a handheld eye with none of the eye’s discretion. What matters instead is perception—that fleeting instant shaped by everything the photographer has lived and felt. And then there is the journey itself. When you go looking for your own Silk Road there are no maps—the road is the journey.”
This event is free and open to the public. The Pass Christian Public Library is located at 111 Hiern Avenue in Pass Christian. To learn more, you can email passchristianlibrary@gmail.com or you can call the library at 228-452-4596.
