Photograph © Adira Thekkuveettil
Photograph © Adira Thekkuveettil
Photograph © Adira Thekkuveettil
Photograph © Adira Thekkuveettil
Photograph © Adira Thekkuveettil
Photograph © Adira Thekkuveettil
Photograph © Adira Thekkuveettil
Photograph © Adira Thekkuveettil
Photograph © Adira Thekkuveettil
Photograph © Adira Thekkuveettil
Photograph © Adira Thekkuveettil
I began to photograph my grandparents in Kolkata in 2017 as a way to continue a tradition of photographing the family, as my grandfather had done his entire life. My process, involving film and tripod, became a way for us to bond, and slowly as the house and my family got used to the intrusion of the camera into their space, it also became a way for us to converse.
Since my grandfather’s death in 2018, I have continued to photograph my grandmother, my aunts, their daughters, and cousins; now a family of women. This is a body of work that is evolving through our own relationships with each other, and continuing in parallel with my engagement with Kolkata, the city that has defined the lives of all my mother’s family.
20 November
