PLAYBOOK FOR MASCULINITY

The series began as a practice to observe and reflect on a culture I grew up inside, often with unspoken rules and gestures that are imitated over and over. With a fascination for the private and public, I kept returning to the idea of ‘masculinity’ as a daily practice: how men interact with each other, how they function in different environments, how the body language changes, how the ‘being’ occupies a space, the physical proximity and gestures that are exchanged.

It is almost as if there exist a collection of standards and rules to handle this act; a 'doing' rather than a 'being’. The photographs
gathered here - family archives, found images and photographs
made now - move across decades and different settings
throughout India. These photographs are an attempt to
visualise moments of vulnerability, connection and a
kind of tenderness that exist just beneath the
surface of the expected.