Portraiture occupies an important part of my practice. Over the decades, I have photographed many well-known writers, artists, actors, scientists, politicians and fellow Indians. Many of the images in this collection were made at a unique bookstore called R&B in mid-90s.
Arundathi Nag, Actor, Founder Ranga Shankara
Arundathi Nag, Actor, Founder Ranga Shankara
David Davidar, Publisher
Protima Gauri Bedi, Dancer
Khushwant Singh, Writer, Journalist.
Mahesh Dattani, Playwright.
Imtiaz Dharker, poet, artist and video film-maker.
U R Ananthamurthy, Author, Scholar.
Shobitha Punja, Writer
Bikram Grewal, Writer
Pepita Seth, Writer
Shashi Deshpande, Writer
R Balki, Film Director
Railway level crossing attendant and his children
Ramakrishna Hegde, Politician
Prof. S. Chandrasekhar. Scientist.
S G Vasudev, Artist
KKS Murthy, Select Book Store
Yusuf Arakkal, Artist
C R Simha, Actor
Saili. Photographed using my 60 years old Rolleicord.
A village priest.
Vivek Muthuramalingam. Photographer. This image was made using a ultra large format process camera. I used 8X10 X-Ray film for this image.