Khaira Village, Kapurthala District, Punjab, 2015
Mehat Village, Kapurthala District, Punjab, 2014
Jandiala Manjki Village, Jalandhar District, Punjab, 2014
Nagar Village, Jalandhar District, Punjab, 2014
Mehatpur Village, Jalandhar District, Punjab, 2014
Rajesh Vora (b.1954) began his career in Visual Communications and has been photographing for over 30 years. A deep-rooted interest in the environment and disappearing habitats has influenced his photographic practice. Vora worked as a photographer with COLORS magazine for over 15 years and often contributed as a researcher and writer. His concern with urban issues led to myriad collaborations and projects with architects, environmentalists and filmmakers espousing critical views on the social, cultural and political situation in India.
His photographs have been published in numerous publications, most recently The Kinetic City & Other Essays (2021) and Working in Mumbai: RMA Architects (2020). His project, Everyday Baroque, was first exhibited in 2016 at PHOTOINK, New Delhi. This project was reconceived as Everyday Monuments in 2022 for Surrey Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada, followed by an exhibition catalogue published by Figure 1 Publishing in 2023.
Recent solo exhibitions include Everyday Baroque at Three Shadows Photography Art Center for the 2024 Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China and prior to this at Maison des Peintres for the 2024 Les Rencontres d’Arles photography festival in Arles, France.
Group exhibitions include Rooee, addressing the remnants of the "empire of cotton", 2019. IIC, New Delhi, Public Places, Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art in India, Newark Museum, USA (2008) and Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA (2009); Bombay Maximum City at Lille 3000 in France (2006); Another Asia, Noorderlict Photo Festival, The Netherlands (2006); FOTONOVIEMBRE2005, International Photography Biennale, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain; Middleage Spread: Imaging India 1947-2004 (2004).
He lives and works in Mumbai.
Untitled, 2014-2019
Set of 26 pigment prints
15 works: 13.5 × 9.5 in (34.3 × 24.1 cm)
11 works: 19.5 × 13.5 in (49.5 × 34.3 cm)
Ed of 8 + 2 APs
Untitled, Punjab, 2014
Pigment print
2 sizes available
24 × 16 in (60.9 × 40.6 cm)
36 × 24 in (91.4 × 60.9 cm)
Ed of 10 + 2 APs
Jandiala Manjki Village, Jalandhar District, Punjab, 2014
Pigment print
2 sizes available
24 × 16 in (60.9 × 40.6 cm)
36 × 24 in (91.4 × 60.9 cm)
Ed of 10 + 2 APs
Rurka Kalan Village, Jalandhar District, Punjab, 2014
Pigment print
2 sizes available
24 × 16 in (60.9 × 40.6 cm)
36 × 24 in (91.4 × 60.9 cm)
Ed of 10 + 2 APs
Haripur Village, Jalandhar District, Punjab, 2014
Pigment print
2 sizes available
16 × 24 in (40.6 × 61 cm)
24 × 36 in (61 × 91.4 cm)
Ed of 10 + 2 APs
Mehat Village, Kapurthala District, Punjab, 2014
Pigment print
2 sizes available
24 × 16 in (60.9 × 40.6 cm)
36 × 24 in (91.4 × 60.9 cm)
Ed of 10
Chak Guru Village, Nawanshahr District, Punjab, 2014
Pigment print
2 sizes available
24 × 16 in (60.9 × 40.6 cm)
36 × 24 in (91.4 × 60.9 cm)
Ed of 10 + 2 APs
Virk (Birka) Village, Jalandhar District, Punjab, 2015
Pigment print
2 sizes available
24 × 16 in (60.9 × 40.6 cm)
36 × 24 in (91.4 × 60.9 cm)
Ed of 10 + 2 APs
Chaheru Village, Kapurthala District, Punjab, 2015
Pigment print
2 sizes available
24 × 16 in (60.9 × 40.6 cm)
36 × 24 in (91.4 × 60.9 cm)
Ed of 10 + 2 APs
Nagar Village, Jalandhar District, Punjab, 2014
Pigment print
2 sizes available
24 × 16 in (60.9 × 40.6 cm)
36 × 24 in (91.4 × 60.9 cm)
Ed of 10 + 2 APs
