dude / happy new year

farah-bi aur daulat-mian

afternoon

laila

canteen boys

iim ahmedabad

...where i spent my childhood years.

i also recently saw "MY ARCHITECT, A Son's Journey", a wonderful documentary made by nathaniel kahn,
son of louis kahn, the visionary architect who designed the iim campus.

"a tale of love and art, betrayal and forgiveness- in which the illegitimate son of a legendary artist undertakes a five year, worldwide exploration to understand his long-dead father."

a journey

can also be a....

wandering, expedition, passage, crossing, peregrination, travel, trek, trip, commutation, commute, errand, excursion, flight, hop, jaunt, junket, outing, sally, sortie, tour; cruise, sail, voyage; drive, ride, spin; grand tour, odyssey, pilgrimage, progress, quest, safari; hike, slog, tramp, walk, walkabout, globe-trotting

khivi & sunny

he's indian, she's korean and they're beginning to look alike !

seen here at hangawi (great vegetarian food) and on the streets of nyc

read khivi's nyc restaurant reviews here

horsing around in the meatpacking district

the financial district from brooklyn bridge

stud, then and now

....the smile is exactly the same !!


debo and stud , h8 iitb, 1990

stud, new york, 2010

of logos and photos, B&H @ 9th ave & 34th st.

figure this...
panasonic/lumix's LX5 and leica's DLUX5 are EXACTLY the same camera.

leica has simply taken the same camera and printed the beautiful leica logo on it.


the leica is also $400 more expensive. so, i bought the LX5.

first photos using the LX5...

shoe shopping, greenwich village

small scale, big change : MoMA

see more here

walking in the canyon, manhattan

fall diptychs 2010 / 6

fall diptychs 2010 / 5

fall diptychs 2010 / 4

fall diptychs 2010 / 3

fall diptychs 2010 / 2

fall diptychs 2010 / 1

the unknown slave, champs de mars

portaloos exterior & interior

at the tent cities on champ de mars.
these were the cleaned ones....
some were not so cleaned. they weren't nice....

the jacket

3 haitian women

dawn drills at the academy

dessalines

statue of jean-jacques dessalines over looking the tent cities which have sprung up post the earthquake

j-j d. was one of the leaders of the only slave rebellion in world history which successfully resulted in establishing an independent nation... which he named haiti. unfortunately, he then went on to massacre the whites on the island, declare himself emperor and enforce a harsh regimen of plantation labour so much so that many blacks felt they were enslaved again. haiti's sad history and its current state of affairs seem to be directly linked to these historical events which took place 200 years ago.