Trespass

08 February 2012

Siddharth Hajra, From the series Opera Monorama

We witness, experience and are privy to barriers of identity and geography being crossed every day. The visualization of ‘Trespass’ is of people whose lives have drastically transformed, of a moment that might have altered their lives or indeed of spaces as they are encroached, as they change and at times break away from a phase into another. In today’s context it can be about interpreting or understanding the self, as new frontiers of identity are challenged and forged.

With support from rsM_071Y

 

With participation from Pix-Team_Lucida

EDITORIAL

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FEATURES

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City Builders

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Chandan Gomes

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Don River

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