The Native Types

“A Series of Photographs Illustrating the Scenery and the Mode of Life of the Women of South India”

(In which  archetypal  images of women from oil paintings, calendar art, votive art, anthropometric photographs, police photographs and film stills were recreated in tableau form and photographed.)

A set of 10 photographs in colour and black and white, each in an edition of 20, 2000-2004

Cracking the Whip

(after film still of J Jayalalithaa c 1970s)
colour photograph
22 x 14.8 inches
edition of 20
2004

Returning from the Tank

(after oil painting by Raja Ravi Varma)

colour photograph
22 x13.5 inches
edition of 20
2004

Lakshmi

(after oleograph by Raja Ravi Varma )

colour photograph
22 x 14.8 inches
edition of 20
2004

Flirting

(After 1990’s Kannada film still)

colour photograph
22 x16.5 inches
edition of 20

Toda

( after 1898 British  anthropometric study)

sepia photograph
22 x 16.5 inches
edition of 20
2004

Criminals

(after 2001 newspaper photograph)

black and white photograph
15 x22 inches
edition of 20
2004

Lady in Moonlight

(after 1889 Raja Ravi Varma oil painting)

colour photograph
22 x 15 inches
edition of 20
2004

Yogini

(after 16c Bijapur miniature painting)

colour photograph
22 x 17.5 inches
edition of 20
2004

Circus

(after photograph by Mary Ellen Mark)

colour photograph
15 x 22 inches
edition of 20
2004

Our Lady of Velankanni

(after contemporary  popular print)

colour photograph
22 x 14.8 inches
edition of 20
2004