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Bodies.
Memory.
Meaning.

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Release

Release occupies the moment when resistance loosens. The reclining body, saturated colour and surrounding darkness turn surrender into an active state—a private movement from containment toward freedom.

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Spirit & freedom

Resilience, transformation and the body’s movement towards self-determination.

The Fallen Angel

The Fallen Angel is not a story of falling, but of finding the strength to fly. Set among ancient ruins, the series follows a winged figure through isolation, fear, self-recognition and resilience. The architecture becomes both a prison and a place of transformation, while light marks the gradual movement from darkness towards inner freedom.

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Flight of a Woman

Flight of a Woman considers freedom as an act of self-definition. Through concealment, exposure and movement, the female figure steps beyond the roles and expectations placed upon her and claims the right to determine her own form.

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Rivers of Freedom

Hair, skin and movement flow through Rivers of Freedom as an uncontained visual language. The body is never presented as a fixed object; it shifts between portrait, abstraction and an instinctive declaration of self-possession.

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Vikram Bawa artwork framed in a contemporary living room
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Desire & the figure

Intimacy, identity and the body as an authored form.

Kamasutra

Kamasutra is a contemporary exploration of desire, intimacy and power—not an illustration of prescribed positions, but a fragmented psychological world in which bodies, memory and fantasy continually overlap.

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Whispers of Eden

The human body returns to landscape in Whispers of Eden. Seen among dense foliage, branches and shadow, the figure appears at once vulnerable and elemental—less a visitor to nature than a presence being absorbed by it.

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The Color Red

Red is not used as an accent but as an emotional atmosphere. It moves through body, cloth and landscape as heat, danger, desire and memory, transforming the familiar world into something instinctive and unsettled.

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Bronz

Bronz transforms the body into a sculptural surface. Metallic pigment, darkness and directed light move the figure between flesh and object, strength and vulnerability—asking where portrait ends and sculpture begins.

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Dance of Love

Love becomes choreography: balance, separation, pursuit and surrender expressed through the disciplined body. Each gesture holds the tension between individual freedom and the desire to move with another.

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Love

Love resists a single definition. Across tenderness, desire, kinship and dependence, these photographs look at the instinct to reach for another person—and the vulnerability contained within that closeness.

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Vision of Love

The body appears as a silhouette at the edge of certainty. Vision of Love is less about possession than projection—the way desire completes what light withholds and imagination turns absence into presence.

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Raw

Raw strips portraiture back to bodily presence. With gesture, texture and directness left exposed, the image refuses polish and asks the viewer to confront a person before confronting an ideal.

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Looking & the body

Intimacy, distance and the charged relationship between observer and subject.

Voyeur I

Voyeur I begins with proximity. The body is encountered in fragments—skin, muscle, gesture and grain—so that looking becomes both intimate and incomplete, revealing as much about the observer as the subject.

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Voyeur II

In Voyeur II, one body enters the space of another. Touch, pressure and overlapping forms complicate the boundary between tenderness and control, turning the act of looking into a study of human contact.

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Voyeur III

Voyeur III withdraws into shadow. The figure is sensed through curves, pauses and partial visibility, creating a private world in which certainty disappears and desire is carried by what remains unseen.

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Voyeur IV

Voyeur IV turns observation into a staged performance. Saturated colour, mirrors, heels and fragmented viewpoints create a charged interior where the subject controls what is offered, concealed and returned to the viewer.

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The Landscape

The body is read as terrain. Through extreme proximity, grain, light and shadow, familiar anatomy loses its scale and becomes a landscape of ridges, valleys, weight and negative space.

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The Bath

The Bath observes a private ritual without turning it into spectacle. Water, tile, wet hair and unguarded gesture make the body immediate and ordinary, while the camera remains conscious of its own presence.

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The Fallen

A winged figure occupies a room stripped almost entirely of colour. The Fallen studies exhaustion, exposure and the quiet interval after collapse—when vulnerability may become either surrender or the beginning of recovery.

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Stop

Stop confronts the systems that instruct, censor and contain the body. Graphic symbols, restraints and direct address turn the subject from an object of looking into a figure that looks back and refuses compliance.

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God! or Goddess!

A direct, colour-saturated meditation on identity, divinity and the body. The work questions who is permitted to embody power, reverence and the sacred.

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Memory & place

Family, aftermath, the city and the traces that remain in objects and spaces.

Beginnings

Beginnings is an ode to my parents and to the private photographic world they created long before photography became my own language. Their self-portraits and family photographs—made not for an audience, but as a way of remembering and seeing—became my earliest encounter with portraiture, performance and the power of an image to preserve a life beyond its moment.

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Story of a Dancer

Story of a Dancer follows a classical dancer within the rooms of her home, where discipline and daily life occupy the same space. Rehearsal, pause, domestic objects and quiet portraits build an intimate account of performance before it reaches the stage.

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The Living Moment

The Living Moment is an exercise in attention. Ordinary rooms, worn objects, shadows and traces of human presence become charged when they are looked at slowly, revealing how the everyday quietly accumulates memory.

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The Long Trip Home

Made from within movement and darkness, The Long Trip Home looks at return as an uncertain state. Roads, trees, structures and passing light appear only briefly, suspended between departure, memory and arrival.

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Tears of Joy

Landscape dissolves into movement and blur, as if seen through a veil of tears. The series holds joy and melancholy together, recognising that the most luminous moments often arrive already touched by their passing.

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Alive!

A machine built for speed and control is shown after impact—crushed, wrapped and stripped of certainty. Alive! finds an unsettling vitality in damaged metal, asking what survival means when the object remains but its promise has changed.

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Mumbai Meri Jaan

Mumbai is seen as a restless choreography of trade, weather, architecture and people. Colour punctures the city’s dense surfaces while each frame holds the friction between endurance and reinvention that gives Mumbai its emotional force.

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Bhuj

Made in the aftermath of the Bhuj earthquake, these photographs move between damaged homes, altered landscapes and the people who continued to inhabit them. The series records destruction without reducing its subjects to disaster, finding dignity, community and endurance within rupture.

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Khadi Gram Udyog

Khadi Gram Udyog is observed as a living institution rather than a nostalgic symbol. Its counters, fans, fabrics, signs and workers carry the accumulated texture of an ideal that continues through everyday labour and use.

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Classic Bollywood

Classic Bollywood brings together portraits made with actors across different phases of Hindi cinema. Rather than flattening them into celebrity, the photographs move between performance and private presence—staged worlds, familial histories, wit and moments of stillness becoming a record of an industry and its changing self-image.

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Liberty Cinema

Empty corridors, doors and seating hold the memory of spectacle after the audience has left. Liberty Cinema becomes a portrait of architecture as witness—a space still carrying anticipation, glamour and countless unseen stories.

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