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I don’t like people,” says Mumbai-based photographer Shahid Datawala. “They tend to disrupt the harmony of space.” His ongoing photography exhibition “Shadowboxing” by Tasveer has 44 black-and-white images, all of buildings in Mumbai, with not a single human soul in view.
Wide steps leading to an old-fashioned house with French windows fenced off by a spectral tree; a ritzy residential building at Napean Sea Road; unfinished structures with black-and-white checkered floors and rubble-strewn concrete shells — portraits of an urban environment in a state of transformation. “After moving to Mumbai three years ago, I started mapping the city,” says Datawala, 34. “Shadowboxing,” he adds, “refers to the time before the actual show begins. Likewise, here the buildings are in a state of change, some held up, others under construction.”
The exhibition at Art Motif gallery in Lado Sarai is on till November 23.
