Camera-generated images / Through the camera
Tactile Technologies
Technologies meet the body through touch, habit, and attention. These photographs move through flame, instruments, print, and the materials of everyday life.
Collection / 20 images
Fire is tool, everyday utility, symbol, and living presence. In its warmth, danger, and transformation, it binds material action to cultural memory. Hyderabad, 2023.
Gathering and carrying firewood joins the body to the materials of survival. Each load holds the promise of warmth, food, and light. Garhwal Himalaya, 2004.
An impromptu gathering on a Los Angeles beach: firelight becomes the pulse of a shared experience. 2006.
From communal flame to electrified light, the dance floor reorganises how bodies move together. Helsinki, 2022.
The living flame persists in everyday ritual: shisha in a St. Petersburg bar as night comes in, 2017.
St. Petersburg, 2017.
Rolling a cigarette returns making and touch to an everyday convenience. Helsinki, 2014.
Incense transforms material into fragrant smoke, carrying intention through a small shrine in the Garhwal Himalaya.
Instrument, clothing, animal, and performance meet in the tactile presence of a wandering musician. Hyderabad, 2023.
Playing an instrument is a dialogue between the body and material: continuous feedback becomes sound and expression.
Electronic music is still actuated through touch: the DJ’s fingers shape binary signals into a continuous, tangible orchestration. Helsinki, 2022.
The newspaper occupied space, made sound, carried a smell, and imposed an ending. As news migrated to digital media, those limits—and that particular structure of attention—largely disappeared. Hyderabad, c. 1995–96.
Sculpture as an intimacy with material and model. Hyderabad, c. 2002.
A self-portrait exploiting the camera’s otherworldly instantaneity, c. 2004.