I was born in Sitapur a small town in northern India but moved to London in the early 1960’s and grew up there, later graduating in Engineering from the University of Wales. My real passion, though, was always in photography and the arts, an interest ignited by my father when he gave me my first 35mm camera as a child (an Agfa Silette). However, it wasn’t until much later, after a career in engineering and social housing, that I was able to resume that passion and take up an MA in photography arts at the University of Westminster under David Bate and Lucy Soutter.
The vivid childhood impressions from my Indian heritage and the experience of adjusting to a new British life, combined with an innate sense of wonder stemming from my science background, have all coalesced to shape the way I look at things. This perspective has influenced the artistic language evident in my works.
I make use of all genres of photography, sculpture and painting as devices for the expression of my ideas, combining them with my own perspective and creating narrative threads from seemingly unrelated images. I’m very much drawn to the concepts of time, memory, death and decay and the infinite Cosmos, partly due to growing up in the nineteen-sixties, which was a time and environment fascinated with space, science and infinite possibility. This merges with influences from philosophical thought and abstract expressionism, rich with metaphor and symbolism, which also infuse my work.
‘Images in Transience are often not about what is seen but what is implied, or what is seen and yet deflected and disrupted by our everyday knowledge of the world’.
Transience and other works such as Memory and space and My Home explore ideas about our epic evolutionary journey through time and cosmos, grief and loss, and decay.
Highlights
In 2022, I was the recipient of the FORMAT Daylight portfolio award. From 2020 to 2022
I was the editor of fLIP magazine and fLIP INSIGHTS (which I founded) which is published by London Independent Photography.
I’m a founding member of FIKA Book and Zine Collective, a photography collective which is currently developing its inaugural programme of work.