Mangroves under threat of vanishing along Mumbai’s eastern seafront, salt pans stretching across the horizon that may soon give way to housing societies. Photographer Sunhil Sippy’s first solo exhibition, EASTWARD: Explorations Along Mumbai’s Eastern Seaboard, documents a lesser-seen part of the city, giving visitors a sense of beauty in decay and the resilience of nature.Many of the exhibition’s images depict spaces in transition; landscapes suspended between abandonment and development. “I wish there was a bench to sit there for an hour and feel it,” theatre actor Sanjana Kapoor told Sippy after visiting the exhibition. Others have called the images “haunting”. Much of the reaction to this stark yet deeply human body of work lies in how Sippy approached the archive and its curation.
Photographer Sunhil Sippy has been visiting Mumbai’s Eastern Seaboard for over a decade
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Courtesy Sunhil Sippy
Darukhana, 2015 (archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle photo rag; from 35mm B&W Negative)
