No one, perhaps, has ever been as defiant about colour, as William Eggleston. No one, also, has been as criticised. Raj Lalwani writes.
William Eggleston’s Audacious Colour
Author: Raj Lalwani
Be As Tall – As Tall As Paul
In a heartfelt, contemplative tribute, Ritesh Uttamchandani recollects his conversations with the elusive master, S Paul.
The Rabbit Hole: Anurag Banerjee on Inspiration
Anurag Banerjee reflects on the various threads that come together to influence his practice as part of 'The Rabbit Hole', a series of deep dives that tries to see why photographers see the way they see.
Contemplating the Photos of Abbas Kiarostami
Raj Lalwani soaks in the poetry that runs through the meditative photographs of Abbas Kiarostami, the legendary Iranian filmmaker, whose journey shares a significant link to the history of photography.
On the Colour Work of Saul Leiter
Saul Leiter’s photographs are of the rhythms that lie within the delicacy of the everyday, his vision, as decisive, as his colours, fluid. Raj Lalwani looks back.
Prabuddha Dasgupta
Prabuddha Dasgupta’s Edge of Faith is a remarkably ruminative document of a lived experience. Raj Lalwani muses on the journey of the visual poet of melancholy.
Anirudh Agarwal’s ‘Nysha & the Sunbeam Talbot’
Anirudh Agarwal brings together the staged and the spontaneous in a work of exploration, discovery and the joys of childhood. Raj Lalwani ponders over Agarwal’s visual sleights of hand.
On Cities and Books: A Conversation with Chirodeep Chaudhuri & Jerry Pinto
From the long lost Bombay tram to a homeopathy propagandist, from Umberto Eco to the BJP, Raj Lalwani engages in an ambling, slightly rambling conversation with Chirodeep Chaudhuri and Jerry Pinto on photography, books, memories and Bombay, our shared difficult loves.
Thoughts on Raghu Rai’s ‘The Album: Family & Friends’
Raj Lalwani turns the pages of Raghu Rai’s warm and fuzzy memoir, and is drawn into memories of his own.
Raghu Rai on Kishori Amonkar
When we heard of the passing of Kishori Amonkar, the legendary vocalist of Hindustani classical music, one immediately thought of the legendary Raghu Rai and his iconic portraits of her, a part of his larger, extensive documentation of people of the arts. Rai recounts a rather affectionate time when he met Amonkar.
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