Saturday 27 August 2016

__Souls of site__

photo essay 4
the workers on a construction site in Raipur, Ahmedabad and Bhosari 2012- 2016
photos by payal patel









Saturday 13 August 2016

__Souls of site__

photo essay 3
the workers on a construction site in Goa and Chennai 2011- 2015
photos by payal patel











Thursday 4 August 2016

__ arteries and veins__

Arteries and veins in a human body carry the blood to and from heart. Bones form the skeleton and skin covers it up all. The organs could be used as analogies for a building under use. Any building has all these components - services ( arteries and veins), structural system (skeleton) and facade (skin).

Its is amazing to watch the services being laid in place - the digging, chasing, tacking. So aptly and surreptitiously that one doesn't notice it until something goes amiss. Here are some images of such work in progress



@raipur 2015 by payal patel

@raipur 2015 by payal patel

@delhi 2012 by payal patel

@ Chennai 2012 by payal patel


@ bhosari 2015 by payal patel
@ raipur 2015 by payal patel

Wednesday 3 August 2016

__Souls of site__

photo essay 2 
the workers on a construction site in Delhi 2011- 2012
photos by payal patel












_ mind the gap_  There's a gap between where we are and where we want to be. Many gaps, in fact, but imagine just one of them. ...