Photograph © Soham Gupta
Photograph © Soham Gupta
Photograph © Soham Gupta
Photograph © Soham Gupta
Photograph © Soham Gupta
Photograph © Soham Gupta
Photograph © Soham Gupta
Photograph © Soham Gupta
Photograph © Soham Gupta
Photograph © Soham Gupta
Photograph © Soham Gupta
Photograph © Soham Gupta
Eden is about a fictive ghost-town swallowed by nature, that evokes a Macondo-like feeling. Nothing I've seen greatly captures the tragic sense of a city regressing back to nature as vividly as Marquez's masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude - and this in ways is a tribute to the book, in my own Indian way. Furthermore, it is also how, as humans, we are slowly, irresponsibly going towards the end; towards our own extinction - and what awaits us - nature reabsorbing whatever was ours. Eden also hints at impermanence, which probably is the only truth upon this earth.
20 November
