This work was a part of an exhibition 'Time & Tide' in collaboration with Tasveer Art Gallery, curated by Nathaniel Gaskell. The exhibition brought together two bodies of work made by Karan Kapoor in the 1980s and 1990s, and focuses on people and places that have either been lost to history, or changed beyond recognition.
The first series in the exhibition presents a study of ageing Anglo-Indians, primarily from Bombay (Mumbai) and Calcutta (Kolkata), and forms one of Kapoor’s earliest personal photography projects. Drawn to the subject, both by the sense of a world removed from time and personal history—he is himself of both Indian and British descent, being the son of Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal Kapoor began by researching the older residents of The Tollygunge Home for Anglo-Indians in Calcutta. He writes, “I was more interested in the older generation as they seemed to be the last remaining remnants of the British Raj – people who remembered the railway cantonments, the Marilyn Monroe look-a-like contest, the ‘Central Provinces’, and so on, a world long gone.”