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My street
photography exhibition – Transitions: Moments in Crossing – opens
at the Jehangir Art Gallery
The
50+ photographs going on display were made over the years of commuting to work
and travelling around the city on weekends, and on travels beyond the city,
each instance providing a window seat into teeming masses immersed in the everyday of being.
I sought.
maybe I didn’t really seek, moments that place the everyday in historical,
cultural, traditional and geographical contexts. And where they don’t, I sought
moments devoid of drama or in the very moment of promising one.
They
are about people, their immediate and far contexts, and their lives on the street. Moments caught in
transit. Moments that came to stay with me. Moments that cemented my impression of the place and its people.
I’ve
attempted to turn the fleeting into a temporary permanence, seeking their
meaning as much in what the framed moments seek to reveal as in their act of
concealment for, meanings live in dualities, and die in convergence.
Among
the places I'll be featuring are Jaipur, Delhi ,
Bundi, Jodhpur , Udaipur , Nashik, Kolkata, Goa, Murshidabad, Bijapur, Benares, Afzalpur, Baroda , Pushkar, and
Mumbai among others.
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Why
Transitions?
In
the street I seek to make memories of my time on it, seeking moments that bring
alive its character in frames frozen street side, anchoring the memories to
unfolding dramas, often unscripted, mostly ordinary, sometimes unusual,
occasionally unexpected.
Each
picture seeks to sit at the convergence of anticipation and surprise to remind
me of the delight, however temporary, at seeing this materialise first hand,
transforming the street forever, its character now tied inextricably to that
one moment as it transitioned from the banal to delightful.
For,
on the street the degree of separation between the innocuous and the piquant,
the ordinary and the novel, the dreary and the absorbing is often so narrow as
to be invisible unless in a tiny sliver of an opening when life reveals its
magic in a fractured moment while transitioning from the banal to the prosaic,
the shutter comes down at the very moment of transition, freezing life in all
its quirks, conflicts, endearments, forebodings, intrigues, and contradictions.
It’s
these transitions I sought on my meanderings, seeking meaning and the
meaningful, where a seemingly plain moment crosses over into the unexpected at
the moment its form and function align together to delight the eye and
invigorate the senses.
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Do
come over and see the exhibition, and if family and friends are not averse to
seeing yet another India-centric exhibition of photographs, bring them along
too, and help put the word out. Thanks in advance.
Venue:
Jehangir Art Gallery
Duration:
13 Dec – 19 Dec, 2017 (open on all days).
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Exhibitions
2017 – Group / Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, UAE.
2017 – Group / Darkroom Gallery, Vermont, USA
2017 – Group / PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
2017 – Group / South x Southeast Gallery, Georgia, USA.
2017 – Group / Slifka Center, Yale University, Connecticut, USA.
2014 – Solo / Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India.
2012 – Solo / Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India.
Awards & Other
2017 – Finalist, Daily Life category, 10th Pollux Awards.
