Editorial Work: Beanbag Graffiti in Bombay

For the past few months I have been working on an editorial assignment that has been fun, challenging—and ultimately—quite rewarding all at the same time. The brief was pretty open: they wanted me to "document" the ubiquitous beanbag advertising graffiti that is plastered all over the city; and thus photograph the sites where it could be found. I was to approach the subject any way I wished to.

I decided to photograph starting from the older, southern peninsular tip of the city moving inwards to the mainland, where the city sprawls into the rest of the country. At the end of the day, the pictures are not at all about the graffiti, but a comment on the city and where it finds itself today.

Here is a small selection from the series for preview:












All images © Zubin Pastakia 2008