My Times, My Place is a deeply personal photographic exploration of India by Aniruddha Guha Sarkar, bringing together visual essays, short stories and poems shaped by his evolving relationship with photography and the world around him.
Beginning with street photography, Aniruddha’s practice gradually moved beyond the search for isolated, clever or unexpected moments. His photographs became a way of understanding the places and times in which he lives -looking at their history, people, contradictions, changing traditions and social realities.
The book moves through subjects such as heritage, religion, changing cities, social divisions, disappearing traditions and ordinary lives. Rather than presenting definitive answers, the photographs emerge as personal attempts to understand these subjects through looking.
The two Forewords, by photographers Ximena Echague and Michael Steverson, offer complementary perspectives on Aniruddha’s photographic journey. They describe a body of work concerned not simply with making an arresting frame, but with looking more closely, asking questions and understanding the human experience within a changing society.
At the heart of My Times, My Place is a simple impulse: to look carefully.
Passing faces, fleeting gestures, fragments of architecture, light and shadow, old posters, disappearing places and everyday encounters become part of a larger visual conversation about India and its people.
The book does not attempt to present India as a finished picture. Instead, it reflects a country in transition- and a photographer continuing to observe, question and make sense of the world around him.
Published by H₂O – Hold To Own, My Times, My Place is an invitation to slow down, look again and consider what we preserve, what we lose and what remains.
