FINDING WOMEN
2026-Ongoing
We shortlisted 100 photographs and started to understand images – searching for recurring gestures, visual similarities, and connections between women who had never known each other.
The process involved categorising and arranging the photographs with our limited understanding of archival practices, while also questioning the authority and limitations of such systems.
Using found and unused Kodak album created a strange sense of belonging, while simultaneously making us question whether providing a new home for these images also meant claiming a relationship with them.
‘Finding Women’ a series of photo albums made from images found in public archive collection from Ravivari Market, Ahmedabad, India and private collection of Hanny from Vengurla, Maharashtra. The photographic archive looks into women and how they were photographed and gives those photographs in today’s context.
Accession Number, where images are reproduced just with their accession numbers in an album – our attempt to create a contradiction.
Does this archive belongs to you?, image descriptions are paired with fictional narratives to acknowledge the gaps in the images.
We are hiring, was more of an experiment to play with the images in context of women’s working rights and hiring.