I returned to Kavi Nagar when I was 21 years old.
I remember a feeling of discomfort; not knowing my place or who I was in that context. I began taking photos as an exercise in learning how to be Indian. It was a visual articulation of my curiosity, responding to my surroundings whilst hovering around my family as they would move through the day.
Over the course of this 7 year journey of taking photographs, Ghar mapped my growing comfort and paved the way for a deeper connection with my family. What began as a response to my curiosity, soon transformed into a thorough visual record in pursuit of preserving intergenerational gestures and familial rituals that often live within the in-between moments that may otherwise pass undocumented.
Ghar was shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture Photobook Awards, First Book Award 2023, and the winner of the Australia/New Zealand Photobook of the Year Award 2024. s anmilial rituals that often live within the in-between moments that may otherwise pass undocumented.
Paris Photo- Aperture PhotoBook Awards, Paris, 2023
New Photobooks from Australia. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2024