40 shades of Bragha Bessell

As a part of my ongoing project documenting senior dance Gurus while they are at work teaching their craft, I had the opportunity to photograph Abhinaya exponent Bragha Bessell  during her workshop in the cosy and colorful basement of Ananya  in Malleswaram.  Typically I would like to limit the number of images in a blog post or a photoessay to ten , but doing so in this case would be a disservice to the seemingly endless emotive vocabulary of Ms. Bessell. Thanks to Nandini Mehta and Murali Mohan of Nadam Institute for organizing the event and for welcoming me to photograph the artist.

 

   

 

 

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Ganesh Ramachandran is an urban designer and a photographer who has led design efforts for a wide range of award winning projects in campus planning, citywide comprehensive plans, downtown revitalization, multi-family housing, transit oriented development and healthcare facilities planning. His work spans a spectrum of services, from conceptual planning, programmatic site capacity studies, project management and public outreach. Since 1998, Ganesh has been collaborating on high profile planning and design efforts in India, United States, China, and Pakistan by developing context-sensitive design ideas and by cross fertilizing planning strategies gleaned by working with the local communities, city governments, private developers and fellow professionals in more than 30 cities across the world including Baltimore, Bangalore, Boston, Cambridge MA, Calcutta, Chennai, Karachi, New Orleans, Palo Alto, San Antonio, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Shanghai and Washington DC. A member of 40-under-40 Next American Vanguard class in 2012, Ganesh has been a guest speaker and studio critic at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Architectural College and University of California, Berkeley. He is also a professional architectural photographer and a documentarian of urban conditions. His work can be seen at www.gramachandran.com and at www.urbanslate.com Ganesh received a masters degree in urban design from the University of California, Berkeley, masters degree in architecture from the Ohio State University, Columbus OH and a baccalaureate degree in architecture from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli, India
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