Urban Stories (working title) seeks to explore the myriad hues and dimensions of the culture of the city of Mumbai through a collection of stylized visual essays. A visual experiment of sorts, Urban Stories will employ such diverse genres as collage and typography, illustration and photography. The resulting collection will emerge as a unique narrative of Mumbai, its pasts and presents, peoples and places.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Face in a frame..


















There are more universes in Mumbai than one can ever want to know or even dream of knowin
g. Leave alone understanding. Faces betray a host of things about a person: their heritage, opinions, lineage, community, lifestyles, thoughts, choices, economic status, concerns .. the list is endless. Mumbai is, relatively speaking, the only Indian city that encompasses such a wide demographic of peoples. And, cautiously, revels in it.

Am working on a piece only comprising peoples' faces from photos to ids to portraits to everything else..