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Author : Dileep Prakash

Dileep Prakash

The Anglo Indians

by: Dileep Prakash
The photographer, Dilip Prakash's interest in the Anglo-Indian community grew out of his marriage to his Anglo-India wife, June from Jabalpur, India. The artist traveled across India for two years making portraits of India's "Anglo-Indian". This term was first used in the 17th century to define mixed marriages between Indians and British or Europeans. Composed in a relaxed manner, Dileep Prakash's images reveal a diversity of characters, from teachers to tea planters, from funeral directors to students and different generations, from children to grandparents. Lifestyle is a key element to the cultural richness of this visual documentary. How the subjects pose themselves within their living or work environments display a sense of dignity and honesty about their identity. The settings disclose historical and religious ties, they expose the simplest means of home environment to the most elaborate. Some home interiors are like intimate small museums of times past with historical family photographs, Christian motives and colourful Indian textiles. The pink chiffon dress of an elderly lady tells of a traditional courting dance past in contrast to the younger tight t-shirt generation of today's club-scenes.

What was home

by: Dileep Prakash
Dileep Prakash has been photographing for 20 years and a considerable part of his work navigates memory and passage of time. With this thought, triggered a desire for him to revisit the past and explore memories attached to his alma mater, Mayo College, Ajmer, where he spent nine formative years, the artist then expanded his interest to include 18 other boarding schools that held a similar resonance for him. What Was Home is an intimate tale of reminiscences by a photographer who is not only reviving his own memories but is also projecting them on to familiar spaces of 'fear, loneliness and surprise'. These photographs, when viewed through the lingering intimacy of Prakash's photographic gaze, evoke memories-some real and some distorted by time. The familiarity of these spaces and experiences invite us within the walls of what once, indeed, was home.

Whistling Steam: Romance of Indian Rails

by: Dileep Prakash
Ever since the first steam locomotive came to India, the country has had an enduring romance with the railway. The iron devil, as the locomotive is called, conjures up visions of a black engine chugging through green fields with smoke billowing from its chimney, trailed by a string of red carriages.
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