most of us wear too many masks. masks that reveal themselves slowly, over time. where among these many faces does reality hide? i guess the truly lucky ones are those who are devoid of any pretense.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
thoroughfare
another photo from girgaon. this two feet wide thoroughfare connects christian dominated dabul area to the parsi dominated nawrojee lane. comfortable for a single line of people to pass through at a time.
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the words in hindi read: let there be peace, let there be love
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working on the girgaon project for the vivas
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photo id: 7299
Monday, March 17, 2008
refill
every now and then i question whether this blog ought to show more of the ‘touristy’ mumbai: the famous buildings, beaches, religious spots etc. but then this would become like most other collection of the city’s photos. (to be honest, i’ve already posted a lot of such shots).
but the last couple of posts have been very, what shall i say, they’ve been frames that are quite cut off from their surroundings. could they have been shots from any other city?
anyway, with that in mind, i was going through the photos on the computer; but i still didn’t want a very postcard photo. so, i settled for this one. its flora fountain at fort. more about the fountain here. notice the truck in the background on the right? that’s refilling water into the fountain on a hot summers day.! shot this some time in may last year.
i like such shots where a bit of value-addition to the over-seen-visuals of places / objects is present. i also think that the fragments that i was talking about earlier actually count for the uniqueness of each place. i just don’t know what happens when they’re framed in complete isolation of their surroundings. what do you’ll think? am i making any sense?
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photo id: 6783
Friday, February 8, 2008
“our donors”
my thesis project is set in my school’s campus. i visited the campus today after many many months. to click a couple of snaps. there have been a lot of changes, as are bound to happen. more about the schools, colleges in the campus, about the campus and about my thesis coming up in the next few months. meanwhile here are the busts of the founders of my my high school, seth hansraj morarji and his wife bai kabibai. for some reason all our school literature referred to them as “our donors”; i think “our founders” will be a more appropriate title.
