And an Interview

http://dodgeburn.blogspot.com/2009/06/photographer-interview-udit-kulshrestha.html

Antoine D'Agata & Mayhem

On the visual Quest for my answers, have been contemplating for almost an year on a subject matter and a story that defines me...something very personal and something very dark ....

Have been awestuck with Antoine D'Agata's work entitled insomnia...very very dark, but human darkeness lies within each of us....

I guess 'Mayhem' will have to be visually translated is the connect I see. If i crack this - will be my life's work that i hv strngly believed and lived too....

Need to work on the script for this...flesh it out.....Also think have been working on it in a very diffrent way...

More Soon...

And to one I answered today....

because i value relationships than money.....becoz the rediff guy couldnt get his words to stand for his 'system'.... because i had to learn what it means when there aint drinking water n when u cant buy more.....and thirst being the only way to quench hunger....

Graphein Chapter iii

With the street as my favorite playground, in search for the possibilities of fusion of different streams of photography and non-conventional forms of established art, I first chanced to experiment with the subject of graffiti purely as a documentative subject in early 2007. Over a period of time while I scoured the streets, this free speech-street art medium started to expose itself as a fusion of different subjects, realms and fields. While most of it was written and could be classified under latrinalia, signatures, proclamations of love, witty comments in response to advertisements, and any number of individual, political, social or religious commentary [folk epigraphy related] to illegal and legal advertisements – visible aplenty on trucks, street walls, trains, doors, lifts, subways, bathrooms, tarred roads or in decorative symbols outside homes – each graffiti piece always had attitude and character, while not always graphic, drawn, painted or symbolic. Also, here was an expressive medium that was expandable, flexible, artistic, visually graphic and difficult to control.

While, the art of graffiti is considered to be that of a literate society, I started to identify with the graffiti subculture as a system of action that renegotiates the social significance of public space. A city to me is a structured space that mirrors social, economic and cultural forces in its organisation and architecture. The city is a place in which markers of identity and collective meaning are displayed and exhibited in a democratic space and graffiti was my means of decoding the city, its places, its cultures and its myriad thoughts to draw my conclusions about the evolution of these spaces to cities of the future.

With my indulgence into graphic mediums of comic books, animations, magical folk and futuristic stories, sci-fi motion imagery, apart from my exposure to advertising and design, the body evolved to abstract design through the medium of my panned vision in its 3^rd chapter, in a graffiti style, termed ‘Regenerative Graffiti’ - Devoid of personal prejudices or endorsements of any kind of political or social thought, yet individualistic in its truest sense, ‘scratched’ to perfectly blend with visions that define the colourful progression of my contemporary society and the human race in itself.

“Graphein”, is a collection of imagery that is my ‘writing on the wall’.

served hot..BC 21

I was buzzing with energies when a power cut happened and that made me pick up my camera and restart my work on the metro - the patch i m working on is called BC 21 (Before Commonwealth - site no 21).

A 2 hour shoot later, having made friends with Jitender Yadav and Sanjay, I actually went below the Metro Rail construction to see how metro workers were joining the cement works - high pressure metal screws... and lots of grinding and cementing as well...

On my way back even stopped over at a newspaper collection point where vendors take count and start distributing to sub vendors - for taking my work on newspaper stories further....

On my way back while sipping a cup of tea - i was but of course sipping it slow...and as i came towards finishing it, my sips became bigger till there was no more.... interesting bit being - arent relationships like this too?

Again??

One more sighted dead yet again !!!

Why???

Dead cats

The count is now 16....

cat o 9 lives

2 more dead sighted... why? why r cats so significant? what is the sign?