Ranthambore

Agra

Rishikesh

Jaipur

dilli haat

framing framed frames

This series in process, tries to observe the dynamics of photography in third person where the photographer and his/her subject are perceived on the same plane. Narration of typical photographic situations so as to make a visual commentary on notions of posing, body language & related gestures of both - the photographer and the subject. The idea is also to understand the active and passive participants in a photo shoot and challenging their roles in context of a given frame.

more in thought than in things

"more in thought than in things..." is a series of assorted images captured over the span of 8 years (1999-2007) in India, Italy, France, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Switzerland. The series revolve around the instinct of assumptions. Ideas we see, seek and construct in images. We interpret light, shadow, texture, shape, lines & subject within the obvious and beyond. All the titles in the series are sub-grouped to indicate a narrative based on multiplicity of conception, syntactic nomenclature and ways of seeing. Assumptions range from meloncholy to humor & literality to irony; as understood individually in shades lying between black and white. Subjects vary from people, urban & rural landscape, nature, objects, portraits & abstracts. The emphasis is on the semiotic translation of imagery, graphic quality and old school emotional appeal. Extempore equipment including point-and-shoot, mobile phone, 35mm film and digital single lens reflex cameras have been used for the images which highlights content & questions dependence of present day photography on pro-gadgetry.

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The first group speaks the language of verbs and punctuation marks. It is a loop of possible emotions evoked by the imagery, as rendered by the presence of anonymity, absence of detail, sense of void and poetic solitude. There are intercepts to the flow of narrative with breathing space and exploration of common and not so common punctuation marks. These intercepts are combination of two images suggesting dual meaning ranslation; like an exclamation mark which suggests the idea of exclamation!