Been in Bombay for awhile doing some research and some pixelography (me and a friend came up with this term as photography does not quite do it justice anymore …). The aim here as the idea evolved is to create a portrait of the city in terms of what I like to call ‘-dividualism’ — that which precedes the individual. We have seen too many picture of smiling faces, or more specifially, too much photography of teeth. Of individuals and teeth. Of the National Geography imaginary of the exotic world that we all grew up on.

But for anybody who stays in Bombay for more than a few days will know that in such an enormous metropolis, most of the people we never can or will experience as individuals. Rather, it is the non-linear mass of collective movement, flows, moorings, accelerations, trans- and inter-actions that we experience. This is what I call the “-dividual city.” So I am more interested in seeing a kind of an a-anthropocentric vision of the world: not seeing frozen moments, but seeing fluctuating frame-rates, seeing different timescales of existence from cars to people to buildings to nature bubbling in-between!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 at 9:20 am and is filed under Artwork, Photography. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.