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.
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Lost Life
City Builders
There Are Things I Call Home
Opera Monorama
On the Wrong Side of the Equator
Trespass
Don River