In Conversation with Maya Varadaraj

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In Conversation with Maya Varadaraj

We’ve long admired Maya Varadaraj’s life-sized portraits that she paints on raw linen canvases. She is drawn to old photographs of her family and moments of growing up in Coimbatore, not just for composition, but for connection — revisiting the gestures, clothing, and textures of her past to reflect on memory and identity. Somehow, the figures feel strangely familiar. We talk to her over email about her latest work, the materials she’s drawn to, and the quiet rituals that shape her art practice.

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In Conversation with Habiba Nowrose

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In Conversation with Habiba Nowrose

Habiba Nowrose is a Dhaka-based photographer and researcher whose practice largely revolves around making staged portraits that explore the role of gender in shaping human relationships. Through the series Concealed (2013) and Life of Venus (2018), she attempts to address the notions of beauty, anonymity, and how women are often compelled to live up to societal and familial expectations. We speak with her about her image-making process, the challenges she has had to encounter through her practice and her experiments with the narrative form of traditional documentary photography.

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