The Red Cat and other Stories
Critically acclaimed and much loved by readers, The Red Cat and other Stories is my debut photobook about my home city, Bombay. It is often said that Bombay is “a city that doesn’t sleep” and also “the city of dreams”. The book explores this dichotomy in India’s urbs primus where a single day can oddly feel as long as a year! Photographed between 2014-2018 with a phone camera, the metaphorical narrative is guided by a fable my mother narrated to us about a lost young man and his unusual friendship with a talking Red Cat.
First edition - 1000 copies, 7 x 7 in. Softcover + gatefolds, 128 pages + 8 page booklet, ISBN: 978-93-5300-910-6.
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In the press - Mint, Hindustan Times, Mumbai Mirror, Hindu, YourStory, PDN, New Indian Express, A Photo Editor
Where are you
In the politically charged winter of 2022, while England was changing Prime Ministers at whim, I went to meet my partner. A doctor with the NHS, ours is a long distance relationship. On my first day, I woke up to three messages on my phone from her which became my guide as I wandered through her new home, the former mill town of Manchester. I came back to Mumbai and looked at my old family albums that housed postcard sized images placed in respective sleeves and accidental diptychs courtesy the photo lab owner. I followed a similar strategy while designing the book, punctuated by short bursts of text, like someone coming home from a long “phoren” trip. The book is neither an accurate portrait of a city, the country nor is it an account of our relationship. It is somewhere on the periphery, like the outsider I was.
First edition - 500 copies, 7.5 in x 7.5 in, 84 pages + softcover, ISBN - 9789359800981
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In the press - Scroll, OPEN Magazine.
snoops on a train
My first zine is a cheeky record of nosey commuters aboard Mumbai's packed local trains. A tight edit culled from photographs made over a decade. Printed locally on rough uncoated paper, the layout simulates the act of peeping.
First edition - 500 staple bound + 50 loop bound, 5.8 in x 8.3 in, 48 pages + softcover, ISBN - 9789334229363
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Afterlife
Mumbai’s politicians have an insatiable appetite for visibility. Their faces appear on banners, hoardings and walls, only to be replaced by another face, another birthday, another festival, another claim to public space.
Afterlife began with my compulsive photographing of these chamcha hoardings and grew into a book about their production, proliferation, disappearance and reuse. The photographs bleed into one another, fragment and collide, much like the banners that crowd Mumbai’s streets.
Printed on glossy paper reminiscent of party manifestos and bound beneath a cover made from salvaged hoarding material, Afterlife gives permanence to images whose life goal is to disappear.
A photobook about Mumbai, political vanity, public space and the strange things we leave behind.
First edition - 520 copies, 9.25 x 6.5 in, vinyl bound hardcover, 120 pages,
ISBN: 978-93-5996-790-5. POSTAGE FREE
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