Vintage photographs of Calcutta from 1920′s… Before the Howrah Bridge, banks of Ganges. Street view; A snake charmer, shoe polish boys, the rickshaws…
Pitcher plant was an exotic plant in my textbook for a long time till I encountered these in Malaysia. I was surprised at the variety of pitcher plants. The Photographs show the Nepenthes genus type of pitcher plant Plukenet’s drawing of N. distillatoria from his Almagestum Botanicum of 1696 […]
‘Traces of Life’ is an on-going photography project. I find it intriguing how ‘life’ finds a way into everything, to find traces of renewal of life, of life unfolding, fading, in process or the becoming of something… There is never ‘nothing’ on this living planet, there is always some Traces of Life
During my travel to Penang, Malaysia, I visited the ‘The Butterfly Farm’ and was enchanted by it. So enchanted that I went back to it several times just to be between the butterflies, and feel like a child.
Photographs from my visit to The Hague. The city is an interetesting mix of stone, brick, traditional and post-modern architecture. Not all contemporary architecture sits well in these streets… Most Architects today do not consider the street view of their building. Loss of detail and composition for the human scale makes our streets less inviting to […]
Indian Leather Puppetry -2 Puppetry storytelling used to be part of entertainment for the common masses, with the invasion of the television this has changed. The leather puppet makers are no longer making as many puppets, and have started to use their skill to make leather objects such as lamp shades, decorative door hanging, partitions and […]
