Documentary, Travel, Editorial and Family Photographer
Do I love photography or do I merely love the idea of photography? I kept asking myself that question as my personal life and art practice went through a rollercoaster…. We artists are scared of censorship and a lack of resources at our disposal. But we failed to realise that the biggest pain was pleasure itself. Of abundance…. And feeding our never ending fancy for distractions.
Here are some stories from my photography assignment for the Community Health Division of Bangalore Baptist Hospital. BBH is a […]
From 2009 to the present day, I documented many weddings and families but little did I know that in another part of my country there was Abhi questioning why he wasn’t picked up for adoption, what was wrong with him and whether he didn’t deserve to have a fresh start at being part of a new family? My visual records of several new families being formed paled in front of the longings of a child… So why do we do what we do? As creatives, do we make art for a particular gain or to get a certain kind of return on our investment?
If there was a concept through which I could describe Patna, it wold be the concept of cleansing. An all too familiar line of thought considering the vernacular of our present government. But what does make a country if not for it’s people and how they spend their days? So there it is. Cleaning of the streets to a lack thereof. A cleanup of corruption and a lack thereof. An attempt at cleansing of the soul from sins in the Ganges to failure thereof. Well, what do you want to clean today?
So I was wondering, what value does experiences make? Those of us who grew up in India know the number of times that we’ve been tutored about us being an agrarian country. But for a person living in an A-Level city what does that even mean? Enter Bihar.
In March 2017, I went to Bihar on assignment for an NGO. Looking at these images, my mind remembers seeing more bovines there than humans. No really. And about the fertile land. Hard working farmers.. But also the idiosyncratic nature of the landscape seemingly seeping into the hearts of some…
Hello Friend, A thought struck me as I was preparing for the webinar presentation… Oh and about that… One of […]
Hello friend, Ok so it’s 2017. We don’t trust photographs anymore you see. And the ones we do enjoy seeing […]
A few days ago I had the opportunity to shoot a live concert. Getting 70s and 80s Hindi classics in my ears was soothing yet motivational. The latter because the man himself, Mr. Santosh Hegde was celebrating his golden jubilee as a professional singer….
Had a great time shooting this morning. A happy coincidence of accompanying an artist friend to Bamboo Bazar, Bangalore’s wood market and having the Fujifilm X-Pro2 with the 18mm f2 lens lent by me friend and fellow photographer Chentil . Though I initially didn’t plan to shot much, once I got going with the Acros + Green filter film simulation, It was as if the scene before me was asking to go for more. The sawdust, old machinery and graphic geometry aws too good to pass by.