COSMO BROCKWAY
REMA CHAUDHARY
WRITER
PHOTOGRAPHER
Brockway is the co-author of ‘Glorious Hotels of India’. In this issue, he heads to Sonam Kapoor Ahuja’s home in London (pg 160): “Sonam is a passionate aesthete, in her own words, and the chance to see her multifaceted talents for design in her Notting Hill home was an inspiring moment.”
A portrait and fine-art photographer, Chaudhary’s work is often set within landscapes. For this issue, she turns her lens on young, feisty fashion designers championing sustainability, and photographs them in the heart of their homes and studios (pg 110).
SIMON UPTON PHOTOGRAPHER
SOONI TARAPOREVALA PHOTOGRAPHER
Taraporevala is a photographer, award-winning screenwriter and film-maker. She has written films like ‘Salaam Bombay!’ and ‘Mississippi Masala’, and also wrote and directed ‘Little Zizou’ and ‘Yeh Ballet’. In this issue, she shares a portrait of textile artist Nelly Sethna shot in 1984, in her home in Mumbai (pg 118).
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A celebrated photographer with a decades-long career, Upton travels to Notting Hill to shoot Sonam Kapoor Ahuja in her home and creative studio (pg 160). “Sonam is both passionate and informed, which has influenced not just the decoration of her apartment, but also her art collection, which is both personal and knowledgeable.”
NANCY ADAJANIA WRITER
Adajania is a cultural theorist and curator based in Mumbai. She was the joint artistic director of the 9th Gwangju Biennale and has curated major retrospectives of Navjot Altaf, Sudhir Patwardhan, and Mehlli Gobhai. In this issue, she writes about Nelly Sethna’s retrospective hosted by Chatterjee & Lal (pg 118).
