Today the 10 day Ganasha festival started here in India. Its ace. lots of large, brightly coloured Ganesha idols for sale on street corners, taking rides through town on the back of trucks followed by processions of people playing drums, and then being dumped into the local lake. Surreal.
Find out more about it here.

Have just added a new series to my website. These photographs of mannequins were taken during the past year or so in both Bangalore and London. The full series is here.

Studio course I facilitated this week with Srishti Foundation design students on the concept of City…

Dates: 10th – 14th August 2009 (wk6)
Facilitators: Matt Lee/ Ravindra G/ Kripa Bhatia
Course Abstract: Studio is a reflective space provided for students to take their learning from two of their previous core courses to a more informed level. This [...]

A course I have been taking this week with Foundation students of Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore. More images will be added to the Srishti course archive over at…
http://cema.srishti.ac.in/archive/story/fsp-101-data-mapping

Dates: 3rd – 8th August 2009 (wk5)
Facilitators: Matt Lee/ Raghu Rao/ Ramesh Kalkur
Outline: This component of the perspective/mapping course will introduce students’ to [...]

The three one minute films I made recently in collaboration with Smriti Mehra for Bangalore’s City One Minutes project have now been added the cityoneminutes.org website. You can check out these films alongside the contributions of other artists who have represented an hour of Bangalore life within one minute…
Our one minute video sketches were shot [...]

These photographs of Kolam designs are  from a series I have been photographing over the past few months in the area around my street in Yelahanka, Bangalore.
A common sight on South Indian suburban streets, Kolams are made with rice powder. Drawn outside the entrance, they are thought to bestow prosperity on the home. The symmetrical [...]