LEFT Road to Vasant Vihar, New Delhi RIGHT Construction Site, Gurgaon

“I have always been interested in contemporary India, the cultural and physical change that it is going through. I felt it was important for me to document and photograph these places that I see, the things that I observe and the culture that I feel. While conceiving this project I realized that, while India was already identified as a hi-tech world, it lacks infrastructural support, creating a space and environment that is a unique mixture of modernity and antiquity. The peculiarity of these spaces was also an effect of the unbalanced growth that India is going through. I noticed there was no sense of consistency in the physical structure of the country. The disparity now not only lies in the economic values, but also in physical nature of our country. Within this disparity was the space that interested me to photograph and make these pictures, a space that was partly frozen in time and interspersed with symbols of accelerated growth.