Monuments of NoBodies: Notes on Out of Glamour Photo Collection

Cosmic Insignificant Size of an Elephant; Authenticity of Womanhood in the rural India; Monuments of NoBodies and People Living Nowhere like a Normal Household; Animal – Human Bodies:

Notes on Out of Glamour Photo Collection

A lady walked towards me, she is quite old, walking in slow like an agitated protester of the new world. she looked at me for a moment and lay near to me in the bunch I was sitting, held her tote bag tightly while she resting, a faded maroon colour sari with white colour small polka dot like print on it, silver garments, white hair, wrinkled and dark, skin-deep traditional tattoos; all of it stimulated a faraway galaxy in my eyes… Her choice of style shown me an exception in Beauty… May be that was an Initial point I started looking at my photographs to search how all this random bodies, textures, colours, archetypes, forms, shades, and everything else in it connecting each other; and I could only find the life as the only idea in them to contemplate…But this incident was the provocation to make a photo collection named Out of Glamour…

Ninety-eight Photographs from South India, specifically from Tumkur (Karnataka), Chennai, Tranquebar, Mahabalipuram (Tamil Nādu), Pondicherry, Hyderabad and Kerala are included in the collection called Out of Glamour… All photographs are taken in a Mobile Camera; a very few photographs obviously this reason went unclear and it limit the size i can print. But later as I mentioned above, not considering its pixel quality, giving more importance to the subjects of each photographs made me determined to realize this project.

The Incredible Women from Rural India. Their Authenticity is a sharp - as a knife.

In my views, Introspection is no more a fancy idea of self-contemplation but a strong internal argument within a self with outer elements; like any kinds of information, ideas, ideology, Politics, Philosophies, Food, Art, our fellow humans, etc; a Conflict with in one body and mind with all the factors which uncover the world to it.

In the post-human era, it is immensely important to find values to the wisdom a human body attain over a lifetime. Photographs in Out of Glamour layered in this complexity between Body as a system and life as a phenomenon of existence. Considering the role each of us to discover and share an embodied life of a person totally stranger to us or unseen or untold to the world; This to remind and erase the brutality we do to our fellow humans very often to test the very sensitivity of their human nature. It is clear we lost our vital layers of humanity for doing an undo for a prefect humanism! An era of extreme Cyborgs v/s Humans are closer, it is a time we collectively must agree up on the fact-each of us carries a universe of ours! If it so, doesn’t you think every single person in the world co-exist! it is clearer that our basic education fails to make us understand about the primary connection we do all carries as humans than just understanding human species through the literature of evolution and as a biological Ecosystem living in the earth above all species and energy sources. In the new world, market-oriented educational courses are emerging in dozens every year, we passing times that wars are executing in nano forms, in small clusters; we own a global market were multinational entities already started popularize, educate about nuclear weapons for selling these new ultra-Sophisticated threats to humanity in the forms of fancy market commodities. In all this modernist consumerist post-truth era our man and women lost horror over violence and war. Resistance over oppression, violence and war are broken and weak… so that it is not idiotic to say, human race will disappear from the planet earth just by killing each other...!

It was very uneasy in the beginning to look at this people’s life as a complete stranger, each time I felt a moment of vulnerability with them; even a silent knock on them from AnyBody can make fire.

This journey unfolded many of life I never imagined before, this is a quest to appreciate the world we live but we don’t see often, their vulnerable gaze, questions, how this people connected to us! who all they are...! What did they say! Where are they now! the heart aches…They lived after in my life, in my memory and through these photographs. These photographs no more represent any geography or particular people, but it showcases the Body as a system and life as a phenomenon of existence or drastic polarities among the extremely marginalized and poor people in India.

In a highly consumerist world, we need everything colourful and eye catchy; in high definition we are continuing exoticizing every war, natural calamities and all other disasters, but the millions of people couldn’t able to live up to these toxic standards of new world, always unseen and excluded from our prime time show biz.

How long do we take to understand that each single human action will affect each other and rest of the humankind? it is wonder, so complex and structured how every one of us, every consciousness manifested and embodied in the universe...!

In a toxic consumerist world, everybody is targeted by everyone.

They are looking / watching,

They are in conversation,

They are in a journey,

They are alone,

They are waiting,

They are homeless,

They are marketing,

They are tired and haunting,

Where must we have been looking if we didn’t look at there or them?

In a constant watching, looking everywhere to everyone and to everything,

are we often forgetting to look at ourselves authentically for a moment or long?

Out of Glamour also a Silent, Slow Scream over What do we choose to buy and consume...

Thank you!