“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality…One can’t possess reality, one can possess images–one can’t possess the present but one can possess the past.” ― Susan Sontag, On Photography After ‘The Writer’s Eye’ and ‘The Historian’s Eye’ William Dalrymple is once again flaunting his photographer persona in his ongoing exhibition titled, ‘The Traveller’s Eye’ at…

  “The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.’” – BrendaHoward Desee Art celebrates the PrideMonth with Soumya Sankar Bose’s critically acclaimed series of photographs, ‘Fool Moon on a Dark Night’. ‘The terms…

  “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves. With ‘Growing Like A Tree’ photographer Sohrab Hura embarked on a new journey as a curator as Ishrara Art Foundation, Dubai hosts his first…

  “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” ― Gustav Mahler As the World Heritage Day, 2021 is themed on ‘Complex Pasts: Diverse Future’, Desee Art looks at the doyen of colour photography in India, Raghubir Singh’s path-breaking oeuvre that celebrates modernism alongside the traditional manner of representing this part…

  “ If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men.”⁣ ― Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition⁣   Prajakta Potnis explores the transgression of public and private systems through her captivating art practice. These…

The New Pre-Raphaelites, 2008⁣ Sunil Gupta⁣ ⁣ “I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough,⁣ To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,⁣ To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,⁣ To pass among them or touch anyone, or rest my arm ever so lightly…

    Photoshoot for Adalaj ki Vav⁣⁣ Watercolour on Paper ⁣⁣ 16x11 in⁣⁣ 2020⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ “We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us”⁣⁣ Winston Churchill⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Century-old buildings that adorned our country are symbolic of the past it left behind. Mithil Thaker’s depiction of the Adalaj ki Vav in Gujarat reminds us today, on World…

As 2019 ended, Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) lit the last flickers of festivity in the happening city of Goa, bringing together practitioners, experts and enthusiasts from a myriad of disciplines ranging from visual, performing, live, Culinary Art to literature, film, fashion and crafts. The fourth edition of SAF, Dec 15-22, was an amalgamation of curated exhibitions and…

‘Where the Birds Never Sing’ by Soumya Sankar Bose Ongoing Photography series since 2017 “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent Similar were the thoughts when the Bangladeshi refugees in Marichjhapi, West Bengal were shot…

  Angst series by Soham Gupta⁣ 2013 – 2017⁣ ⁣ “Some lose all mind and become soul, insane.⁣ Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.⁣ Some lose both and become accepted.”⁣ ⁣ – CharlesBukowski⁣ ⁣ ⁣ SohamGupta’s odyssey of the last few years provides us with a glimpse into a world where the ‘insane’ is…