“Defaced – IMG_3614”

“Defaced – IMG_3614”, 2013. Digital Photography. Limited Edition of 25. Image size Paper size 59.4cm x 42cm.

Defaced.

India has a population of more than 1 billion, so to have your image on a wall means you have achieved an elevated status. Documenting these fading and defaced faces, is for me a momento mori and a way of freezing what happens to both image and person before their almost inevitable slide back into wall and obscurity. Following their Warholesque 15 minutes of fame, is a period for the images, often years, of degrading exposure to the elements and human intervention, during which they are transmogrified, into something ghostly, surreal or abstract while others become vaguely comical and some even joyful.

Printed on Hahnemühle german Etching 310 gsm paper using archival inks.