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My photography exhibition - Footnotes: Moments in Repose - opens at the
The 50+ photographs
on display were made over years of my travels across India , seeking backdrops that place
the everyday in historical, cultural and traditional contexts.
They are about
people, and their immediate contexts. Moments caught in transit. Moments that came to stay.
I’ve attempted
to turn the fleeting into a temporary permanence, seeking their meaning as much
in what the moments framed seek to reveal as in their act of concealment.
Ordinary people,
their ordinary moments.
Among the places I've featured are New Delhi , Jodhpur ,
Deeg, Kurukshetra, Nashik, Mumbai, Kolkata, Goa, Uttarakhand, Murshidabad,
Bijapur, Afzalpur, Mysore , Varanasi ,
Baroda , and Mumbai
among others.
Why Footnotes?
It took me some
time to realise the two-sided nature to most things on the street and off it –
You cannot walk towards something without walking away from something else. To
wait is to wander, for while the feet rest, the eyes do not. A moment frozen
comes alive in the continuity it promises, for continuity is no more than a
succession of stillness. To meander is to wait on the move. And you only ever
come home when you’re away.
Each moment dwells in a duality, a duality
that’s singular at the point of convergence. And it’s in this duality I
wandered on the streets, seeking the transitory in the continuous, revelling in
the light the shadows revealed.
I sought the middle ground, the space where
a moment is in the middle of a transition. Having shed its origin in the very
instant it begins to transform into an ending, it shows neither the beginning,
nor the end.
Lacking the
identity of either it becomes a footnote, like life itself.
Timings: 11 a.m.
– 7 p.m.
