Photographer Neha Hirve moved back to India just as the coronavirus swept the country. Now she's focusing her lens on domestic life in lockdown, her childhood home, and her aging grandparents.
Left: A man fumigates the compound where Hirve and her family live. Right: Burning incense on Gudi Padwa, the traditional new year for Marathi and Konkani Hindus, on the first day of the lockdown, March 25.Left: A man fumigates the compound where Hirve and her family live. Right: Burning incense on Gudi Padwa, the traditional new year for Marathi and Konkani Hindus, on the first day of the lockdown, March 25.Left: Hirve's grandmother combs her hair.
By centering her grandparents in this latest work, Hirve examines them in the present in a way she has never done before. With her use of close-ups, color and brightness, her recent photos appear as if she is looking at her subjects in the present but through the lens of a time before the pandemic.Left: A Gudi arrangement is used to ward off evil and invite prosperity into a house during the Marathi new year. It's usually created with neem leaves and a colorful flag, but curry leaves are used here, because that's what was available. Right: A parakeet in midflight.
"I think of all those who are staying away from their loved ones to protect them, and I feel lucky that I get to keep them close for now. This project comes from a place of trying to capture the fleetingness of the everyday." The political tensions, while not directly present in this work, influenced the way she approached the photographs.The close-ups and exploration of details serve as mementos of the family and home that once was and that now is: details of flowers, hands touching, a thermometer displaying a high temperature, her grandmother's eyes looking into the distance, birds flying free and nature continuing its march forward.
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