PHOTOGRAPHY

How a city's history and imageability is constituted and communicated is deeply political. By using photography as a technology of visual ethnography, I attempt to showcase unique ways in which we make sense of Indian cities by capturing oft overlooked textures of urban living, seeing, feeling, eating, and embodying as well as rhetorics/cultures of power, material, desire, aesthetics and leisure/play in the city. The idea is to condense a dynamic visual archive that deconstructs hegemonic narrations of the city by encouraging publicness to the writing of urban histories and realities.

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This project follows my journeys across Indian cities inlcuding Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pondicherry, and Banaras with a special epilogue dedicated to the cats of Mumbai.

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