What does a cinematographer or a photographer do that we can't? Well, he reinterprets the world through his gaze, recreates it, focusses on moments that say, "Watch this. This is important. Beautiful. Relevant," bleaches a frame of colour or suffuses ...Read More
River as a witness. River as a companion. River as a traveller. River as a habitat. As a purveyor of food. Waste. Faith. Goods. Livelihoods. Memory. Artist, film maker and photographer Bhavani GS has been obsessed with the many faces ...Read More
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
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