A preacher at Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park, shot twenty years ago this month. Pulled from my archive. Marble Arch, London, November 2005.

A young Bohra in Bohra Mohalla, Bhendi Bazaar, Mumbai. December 2009. 

An everyday passage through a space layered with history, devotion, and belonging.

 

At Bohra Mohallah, Dongri, Mumbai, December 2009 محله بورا (نه بوهرا)در دونگری در شهر قدیم بمبئی. بوراها جماعتی تاجر و گجراتی هستند که در دوران کلونیال، مثل خیلی‌های دیگر، بمبئی بدل به پایتخت‌شان شد.

 Firoze: Bandra, Mumbai, April 2010. [from my archive]. I’m memory of a good friend, the late Firoze Shakir who passed away last year. بیاد مرحوم فیروز شکیر، اولین دوست و حلقه ارتباطی من با بمبئی که متاسفانه اواخر سال پیش میلادی بعد از یکدوره بیماری درگذشت

A typical hot April day commuting on a local train, Mumbai, April 2010. [From my archive]

 تردّد معمولی در یک روز گرم آوریل در قطار محلی، بمبئی، ۲۰۱۰. از مجموعه‌ عکس‌های سومین سفر میدانی‌ام به بمبئی

 

Untitled: Taken during Hasselblad Workshop June 2009 [ From my archive].

Hasselblad H3D; ISO 100; 80 mm; 1/80 sec; f/11.

Portrait: London June 2009.

I recently processed the raw file of this shot, taken during a Hasselblad event in London, after such a long time. [ Hasselblad H3D || Lens HC 100; 1/250 sec;   f/13;   ISO 100 ]

    

Portrait: Dezfoul, Summer 1990

Silence: Dezfoul, Iran, Summer 1988

Oxidised Gormley: 'The Other Place' by Antony Gormley; Crosby Beach, Liverpool, April 2011.

This is one of 100 casted life-size artist's own body that spread out along three kilometres of the foreshore at Crosby.
Having previously been seen in Cuxhaven in Germany, Stavanger in Norway and De Panne in Belgium, 'Another Place' is now a permanent feature at Crosby Beach.

 A Bohra: Bohra Mohalla, Dongri, Mumbai, December 2010 (during Muharram)

Smile: Mumbai, December 2010

Every time that I am looking for a photo for a paper about Mumbai, I come across a lot of interesting photos in my archive and it makes me posting couple of them. This one is a boy at a garage around Buycolla in the south of Mumbai.

 هر بار که برای تکمیل یک مقاله در آرشیو عکسهایم به دنبال تصویری هستم به کلی عکس جالب برمیخورم که باعث میشه چندتاشون را پست کنم
 این پسری است در یک تعمیرگاه موتورسیکلت در حوالی بایکولا در جنوب ممبای

 

Portrait: at the front of Mugol Masjid, Dongri, Mumbai, December 2010
It is a break from the Muharram related photos, nevertheless taken again in Dongri area in the south of Mumbai