Memories

Back in the 1980s children in Kollam would grow up in close-knit and wide community, a community that took care to shape the world view of the child. It was like living in an island, everything outside this cloister was foreign. For the artist from an early age photography held a deep fascination that mature into a photography practise in adult years.

In an attempt to get at the core materiality of photography the artist immersed himself in the darkroom. Freed of its immediate need to depict the photography became an act for itself.  So, when he came upon a large collection of old negatives from an old studio that was shutting down, it was impossible to resist the urge to print them.

The faces that emerged from the fogs of time invoked a childlike glee in discovering images of people that may or not have passed by in childhood. They felt like memories that missed their mark, only to get a second chance. The series attempts to create a topography of a land through the portraits of its people. The images will be displayed in varying sizes of grids suspend from the gallery space insta of being hung on the wall.