StoriesLife in India-Bangladesh Border2 Oct at 5:42 pmMahesh BhatIn 2005, I photographed life in villages along the porous border between India and Bangladesh for The Times. I worked…
Writings on PhotographyImagery from the Unconscious: Conveying More by Saying Less22 Sep at 8:52 amMahesh BhatHow do we think in imagery? How do we make pictures, and why? What do we say with our photographs?…
ThoughtsAn Uncertain Modernity7 Jan at 2:36 pmMahesh BhatThis image was made during a train journey in a third-class compartment from Ballary to Bangalore in 1985 or 86.…
ThoughtsMangalore mega urban region?7 Jan 2022Mahesh BhatMangalore in the 80s was a small town. Folks from big cities even described it as a village masquerading as…
ThoughtsNew World Makers5 Aug 2021Mahesh BhatStudents of Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology at Bisile Ghat, Western Ghats, 2020 I am sure you are…
ThoughtsWishes for a new world -3. Education to develop critical thinking and better public healthcare21 Jun 2020Mahesh BhatTulasi Munda set up a school in the remote mining area of Serenda in Orissa 60s and has helped educate…
ThoughtsWishes for a new world – 2/ Imagination & Governance5 May 2020Mahesh BhatMany of my posts on social media on the current situation have been met with questions such as, “Do you…
ThoughtsWishes for a new world – 118 Apr 2020Mahesh BhatUnequal World. This image is symbolic of the gross inequality that we have subjected our fellow humans to. This inequality…
StoriesKarnataka11 Apr 2020Mahesh BhatU R Ananthamurthy, 1989. I made this portrait at his room in Hotel Anshraya International, Bangalore. He stayed there for…
StoriesGrassland Story, Vol-II27 Oct 2019Mahesh BhatSometime in August of 2011, a senior IAS officer, the then head of Bangalore Development (Destruction?) Authority, stood on the…