I am in a crowd and yet alone. Looking around at people conversing, laughing, I wonder. Do they also feel the same way as I do? A friend shakes me from my stupor and asks, "Hey! All well?"
The same answer. ...Read More
Freedom is a word full of peril. Because it engages with something that exists beyond the possible, the real, the confined, the limited. Freedom in its purest sense is not a destructive word. It is not about leaving ...Read More
Whenever photographer Clare Arni steps on Bangalore's MG Road, young vendors of cliches flock around her, mistaking her for a foreigner. The moment she starts chatting them up in mellifluous Kannada, they realise their mistake. Only an ...Read More
In the 80s, when you opened a film magazine you came across Gautam Rajadhyaksha's name pretty often. I still remember one shot of Tina Munim curled up on a sunny window ledge with a cup of tea, smiling into the ...Read More
Stashed away in an old cupboard, inside a bag neatly folded around its contents, are old memories calling out to me from photo albums. This overtly melodramatic wistfulness has been triggered by my crashed hard disks that contained all the photographs of all my trips made ...Read More
You can capture silence only if it captures you first. Only if you allow it in your soul and let it settle down down like a pool of blue nothingness, with not a ripple on its surface. Just a liquid ...Read More
It takes more than passion to achieve what Mohan Khokar did. He was like a man possessed, who collected everything that was possible on the subject of Indian dance. Dance aficionados would be familiar with the man who was himself ...Read More
I had just come back from a week-long trip when the doorbell rang. Fervently hoping it would be the home-delivery guy, I opened the door to find my 53-year-old neighbour, the good samaritan that he is, standing sheepishly with all ...Read More
It was an out-of-focus photograph - of close friend and fellow artist Anjum Singh setting up her show at Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi - that started it all for Manisha Gera Baswani. A lesser eye would have perhaps ...Read More
Sharmila Shah cuts a pretty picture but the pictures she clicks are not just pretty. They have something that comes from the core of her life-loving, vibrant personality. Sharmila does not do things in half measure. She enjoys good food, travel, music, friends and ...Read More
Photographs from a war zone - resolute soldiers firing guns and bombarding whatever remotely resembles the enemy, aftermath of devastated landscapes, victory dance of the one who has had the last laugh and shattered faces of the vanquished - make ...Read More
Most unusual career choices are happy accidents. Atul Pratap Chauhan had no early stirrings of a passion for photography. In his village, a photographer was someone who clicked passport pictures or wedding photos. Atul was slated to invest elbow grease in the food industry when a professional photographer ...Read More
