The Built Landscape

This series seeks to explore modern India’s built environment as the physical manifestation of its society’s ideals. Engaging with the urban and arterial Indian landscape, these images contemplate the way we relate to the man-altered landscape and how it reflects us.

The sites photographed—slum rehabilitation projects, housing colonies, peripheries of new business centres, suburban townships, sites of environmental degradation and open spaces that are pending development—are of contemporary interest to us as a society.

Through a gradually unfolding narrative, the project intends to encourage viewers to critically consider the built landscape and question the forces that are shaping it's constant metamorphosis.

[Series still in progress]

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The Built Landscape

  • New Navy Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai, 2007
  • Sun N Sea Residence, Versova, Mumbai, 2007
  • Billboards, Bandra Reclamation, Mumbai, 2007
  • Low-Income Housing, Greater Noida Expressway, 2007
  • Loknayak Nagar, Slum Rehabilitation Project, Andheri, Mumbai, 2008
  • MMRDA Colony, Slum Rehabilitation Project, Powai, Mumbai, 2008
  • Chowpatty Beach, Mumbai, 2007
  • Former Slum Walls & Railway Officers' Colony, Lower Parel, Mumbai, 2008
  • Wastewater Treatment Drain, Malad, Mumbai, 2007
  • Tata Colony, Bandra, Mumbai, 2007
  • Middle-Income Housing Colony, Sector 105, Greater Noida Expressway, 2007
  • Construction Site, Powai, Mumbai, 2008
  • Cuffe Parade, Mumbai, 2007
  • BDD Chawl, Sewri, Mumbai, 2008
  • Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mumbai, 2008
  • Slum Walls & MbPT Colony, Reay Road, Sewri, Mumbai, 2008
  • Mithi River, Bandra Reclamation, Mumbai, 2007
  • Slum Rehabilitation Project, Chandivali, Mumbai, 2008
  • New Navy Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai, 2007
  • Sun N Sea Residence, Versova, Mumbai, 2007
  • Billboards, Bandra Reclamation, Mumbai, 2007
  • Low-Income Housing, Greater Noida Expressway, 2007
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