Photographer Karan Kapoor, the former posterboy for Bombay Dyeing, spent his late teens in Bombay and Calcutta (now Kolkata) shooting ageing Anglo-Indians in the 1980s. These photographs, along with shots of the Catholic community in Goa, where he used to holiday as a child with his famous parents, actors Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal, are being exhibited for the first time in five cities across India under the aegis of Tasveer Art Gallery. “We’re talking about a community of people who chose to stay in India post-Independence. They didn’t feel Indian; they felt torn. I found that they had a wealth of memories in their photo albums, in their homes, and I spent time speaking to them. These photographs are part of that conversation,” Kapoor, now a London-based photographer, tells Harmony-Celebrate Age. The 45 silver gelatin prints, which were on display at Mumbai’s TARQ Gallery recently, will be showcased in Bengaluru this December.

Photograph by Karan Kapoor / Courtesy: Tasveer
Featured in Harmony — Celebrate Age Magazine
November 2016