The Relational City and the City's Relations - A Visual Exposition
Do Din seeks to underscore the relationships that comprise urban existence..
Photo by Swarat Ghosh
The Urban is a cluster of imperative relationships, not always of our own choosing
Photo by Harsha Vadlamani
When one is sharing a physical space with hundreds of thousands of others can it be done without relating to these others?
Photo by Lipi
The autonomous modern individual, then, seems an elaborate myth, we might even say urban legend!
Photo by Rajesh Pamnani
It masks the complex inter-dependence within the urban space.
Photo by Soham Gupta
Transformations here are relational. Nothing changes in isolation. Nothing is independent.
Photo by Soham Gupta
Any relationship in the city that transforms..
Photo by Gopal MS
Transforms the whole city and the city itself is not independent of its relationship with its inhabitants,
Photo by Julie McGuire
and with other cities and their inhabitants.
Photo by Harsha Vadlamani
It is a perennial connection.
The photographs used in the post were exhibited at Do Din 2013 in a set of exhibitions curated by Madhu Reddy and Aditya Mopur. This year too we will have photo exhibitions based on different themes, which will be curated by Aditya Mopur and Harsha Vadlamani. (The images used in this post are compressed scans which has modified the original resolution and lighting)
