Everyday Baroque by Rajesh Vora
In 2014, Rajesh Vora (b. 1954, Delhi) began a 6000km journey photographing the painted sculptural embellishments that adorn rural homesteads in India’s northern Punjab state. Undertaken in phases, his photographic odyssey lasted two years. During this time, Vora, a documentary photographer with a liking for architectural subjects, learnt that in the 1970s immigrants to the region began adding these decorations as a way of memorialising aspects of their personal history. Of course, it helped that Punjab has a rich heritage of figurative sculpture. First exhibited in Delhi in 2016, Vora’s photographs record how personal idiosyncrasy has been transformed into something approaching a vernacular style. http://www.photoink.net/artist/index/artist_id/138