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Zameen Aasman Ka Farq
"As far apart as the Earth is from the Sky"

2016 - 2025

In India, the language commonly used to describe men holding hands or interlocking pinkies as they walk, embracing or leaning intimately into one another, is “friendship.”

In Zameen Aasman Ka Farq, I focus on the affection between Indian men: physical touch that offers a window into the meanings of friendship, love, sexuality and queerness. In photographs and texts, the work aims to visualize the many dimensions that love takes on for my collaborators, from the open and the socially accepted to the unspoken.

Since 2017 I have collaborated with people from a broad variety of backgrounds and identities, including nonbinary, on making analog, medium-format portraits and digital video footage, as well as recording over 250 conversations in 19 languages, resulting in over 4500 pages of transcripts.

With translators, I have traveled to cities and villages across these territories: West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh.


An Aperture Portfolio Prize Finalist (2022), features include British Journal of Photography (Diane Smyth, 2017), and Magazine M, Le Monde (Lucy Conticello & Clément Ghys, 2022).

Please email for access to a comprehensive exhibition proposal.

Assistants:
Sohel Khondekar, Mubeen Siddiqui, Jaideep Kshirsagar, Rohan Mathews, Deepesh Meher, Avadhoot Potdar, Chetan Sharma, Ayu Bhagat, Achal Dodia, Shivalal Gautam, Shankhadeep Mitra.

Transcription/Translation Team:
Chikirsha Prakash, Daksh Goyal, Chakshu Sharma, Deb Sanyal, Ankit Andurlekar, Niranjan Nampoothiri, Sreyartha Krishna, J. Mandakini, Sraiyanti Haricharan, Vaishnavi Suresh, Shivakumar Lanka, Bindu B., Karan Malhotra, Achal Dodia, Shankhadeep Mitra.
 
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We sat in the fields near the Krishna River. Imtiyaj and Ravsaheb spoke of their sexuality, family bonds and the futures they envision.
Maharashtra - 2018


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I like to pass by the Krishna River early in the morning.
Karnataka - 2020


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Excerpt from a conversation, audio-recorded.



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Goal and Chandan stopped on their bike commute.
Sahibganj, Jharkhand - 2017


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Friends Chotu and Rajan leaving the temple.
Jharkhand - 2017


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On an evening commuter train, back towards Kolkata.
West Bengal - 2023


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Rutwik in his room.
Maharashtra - 2023


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Day laborers in Sahebganj.
Jharkhand - 2017


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Yash drying his Gamchha in the breeze, after his morning bath and worship.
Jharkhand - 2017


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Ammaji played with the leaves under the trees in the Upper Lake Park.
Madhya Pradesh - 2023


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During a brief pause at work at Manikarnika Ghat, Ramlala disentangled Pappu’s necklaces.
Uttar Pradesh - 2023


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Sundor presided lovingly over our meeting, while Prosenjit held Sujan. We spoke about their portrayals of female characters in the tradition of Bengali Gajon theatre.
West Bengal - 2023


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Yash took me on an early morning walk around the village. I asked him to take me where he meets his friends in the evenings.
Bastar - 2020


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Gaurab and Ravi asked for a selfie near the Ganges.
Jharkhand 2017


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Excerpt from an informal interview, audio-recorded.



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Shanti showed me a folder where she keeps articles from which she learned the terms that describe her identity. It holds the documents she signed for her Sexual Reassignment Surgery. She was never able to realize that dream.
Andra Pradesh - 2020


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Sudheer with his mother and wife, Vidya. When we sat down to talk about Sudheer's journey, Vidya announced: 'I know everything, we can talk about anything'.
Maharashtra - 2018


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Ana Rose.
Uttar Pradesh - 2023


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Suresh and I sat in Cubbon Park in the cruising area near the Parade Grounds.
Karnataka - 2019


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A cinema hall in Mumbai where men come to cruise for 'fun' with other men. I had a long conversation with a man who asked me to name him 'Amit'.
Mumbai - 2018


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Ravsaheb works in a group that suppports male sex workers in a small town.
Maharashtra - 2018


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Arjun recounted the loss of affection when he moved to Chicago for his studies, and the loss of freedom when he moved back to his parents' home in Bangalore.
Karnataka - 2018


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Aniket paced nervously for a while when I reached his room.
New Delhi, 2017


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Arghadeep sat on the porch of his ancestral home.
Assam -2023



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Deep into the night, Ajmal and I waited together for our train to Chennai.
Tamil Nadu - 2019


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The sounds of the birds is omnipresent.
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh - 2023


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Patruni Chindananda Sastry above the clouds.
Telangana - 2020


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Excerpt from an informal interview, audio-recorded.



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Hoshang recounted how in his youth he was badly beaten up one night in San Francisco. ‘That night I realized’ he said ‘that only through education I would stay alive. And so I began to study, instead of cruising every night.’ Telangana - 2020



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Our room in Sangli. The manager of Hotel Great Maratha angrily accused me of making porn films. I had briefly met my queer friends in the lobby the evening before.
Maharashtra - 2020


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Irfan came to the hotel after Friday prayer.
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh - 2017


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Excerpt from a conversation, audio-recorded.



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Akthar was eager for us to meet his best friend Dilshaad, in his barber shop. Punjab - 2017


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Randheer and Rahul, at home.
Uttar Pradesh - 2023


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Rachana and Shoaib in their new home in Hyderabad. Although Shoaib has been with the trans activist for years, he was hesitant to appear in a portrait with Rachana.
Telangana - 2020


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Excerpt from a conversation, audio-recorded.



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Elton recounted how his penchant for dressing up and applying make-up as a boy used to entertain his family, until the moment when he eventually came out to them.
Bombay - 2022


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Muneesh in his fishing village near Rameswaram.
Tamil Nadu - 2019


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Excerpt from an informal interview, audio-recorded.



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Bishal spoke of his lover and his failed marriage.
Sikkim - 2023


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Following the sounds of a marching band through the lanes of Aizawl, I eventually met the band leader, Mualhlun.
Mizoram - 2023


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We were welcomed with flowers.
Arunachal Pradesh - 2023


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After a two hour trek, we arrived in Sanjay's village in the foothills of the Himalayas. #1
Uttarakhand - 2017


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After hours of long, exhausting conversations -or attempts thereof- with tribals deep in the forests of Bastar, I walked around Gudiya Village.


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I asked Ayyanar and Manimaran to meet me for a conversation in the morning, after they returned from sea.
Tamil Nadu - 2019


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Ganesh asked to make a portrait, and Mr. Solomon insisted on giving a 'pose'.
Tamil Nadu - 2019


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Rajnesh and Dheemana were on their way home from a party when they stopped their rickshaw at the chai shop. I had been warned the crowd would become ‘rough’ in the evenings.
Karnataka - 2018


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As we waited for Naveen on Manikarnika Ghat, I noticed Shivam and Vansh playing Stone, Scissor, Rock in the morning sun.
Uttar Pradesh - 2023


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Koshtak, in Khajuraho.
Madhya Pradesh - 2023


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We woke up before sunrise to visit the workers staying near the rice market during harvest. Bahirav was waking up, holding Tahir in his lap.
Punjab - 2017


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A class photo, near Chamundeswari Devi Temple.
Karnataka - 2018


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Safee rents a room away from home where they can dress as a woman. On rare occasion they will go to a private party dressed.
Karnataka - 2018


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Saleem spoke of the deep cultural disconnect he sees between older and younger generations of queer Indians.
Lucknow - 2017


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Excerpt from an informal interview, audio-recorded.



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Alina was nervous - she had just left the hospital where her friend passed away earlier that morning. But she wanted a record of the moment so we made a portrait.
Chhattisgarh - 2020


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Siddarth in his fathers shop. A hijra interrupted us, begging for a tip. After they received a dontaion they blessed the shop and winked at Siddarth.
Chhattisgarh - 2020


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Kartik and I met repeatedly as he maneuvered between meetings to help organize Lucknow's first Gay Pride march and dealing with coming out to his extended family.
Uttar Pradesh - 2017


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Rajeev and Arun, with Amma looking on.
Tamil Nadu - 2019


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Secret Warriors. Uttarakhand - 2018


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Outside Dakinpath Satra a small fair grew during the afternoon. We all waited for nightfall, when the Rakh performances would begin.
Assam - 2023


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Anmol's son in law was busy taking selfies after their worship at the temple.
Rajasthan - 2018


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Chandon and Asish struck a pose, on Nam Ghor Ghat.
Assam - 2023


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I was turned away by the Arunachal border police. I waited three days for my permit to enter, and to finally meet Sawang in Itanagar.
Arunachal Pradesh - 2023


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The second time Bushra and I met she allowed me into her and Akhtar’s home. After a week spent together, on my last evening with the family she drew a mehendi on my hand.
Photograph by Ayu Bhagat. Punjab - 2022


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Cities, Villages and Hamlets where I have worked since 2017.


(West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh)

 
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Samples of transcriptions and translations of 250+ recorded conversations.

The archive now comprises over 4500 pages of transcripts, in twenty languages.

 
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