A one minute video sketch I made in collaboration with Smriti Mehra for cityoneminutes.org has been selected for a presentation at Lumineus Amersfoort. From 11 November to 30 December 2009 the old town of Amersfoort, Netherlands, will be illuminated accompanied by a city tour along 10 contemporary art works/multimedia installations in public space. The One [...]

Just added to my site an ongoing series of photographs exploring the relationship between iconic, large scale advertising billboards and the surrounding environments in which they are situated. These photographs were taken in Bangalore, Varanasi and Kerala, India.
See the full series here.

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.

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 [...]

Today was fun. Spent literally the whole day in Bangalore’s Vidhana Soudha. (An imposing building built in the 1950’s for the seat of the state legislature of Karnataka, home of various government departments and such). I was there visiting my friends at the Passport & Foreigners Office for a signature to grace a new multi-entry [...]

One of the great things about working from Bangalore is the opportunity to visit so many culturally and visually diverse places. Recently my parents and brother came to visit and we traveled parts of the North and South of India in three schedule packed weeks. We met first in Delhi, before traveling on to Agra [...]

I was in Delhi over the weekend on some Srishti business. I took this photo outside the PVR Cinema in Connaught Place. Made me smile.

Just added to the photo section of my site, an ongoing gallery of photographs that explore juxtapositions involving religious artifacts, iconography, people and spaces within the wider context of their surroundings. Photographs taken in Bangalore, Varanasi, Delhi and Kovalam, India. See them here.