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| An image from Monisha Ajgaonkar's new photo series "Blossom," on the coming out of a transgender. Image courtesy: Monisha Ajgaonkar. |
It isn't often that one comes across a subject that floors you instantly. When I received a detailed mail from Monisha Ajgaonkar's rep on her new photo series, "Blossom," I knew there was a sensitive and a beautiful story waiting to be explored.
Monisha is not an unfamiliar name in the wedding photography circles of Mumbai. She is also an LGBTQ activist who doesn't mince words when talking about this subject, but does it with great panache, as I discovered while speaking to her over phone on "Blossom." She says she has her hands full at any time of the year with wedding photography, but once annually, she does take some time off commercial work to create something straight out of heart, something that satisfies the creative individual inside her.
"Blossom" is the result of her creative escapade from commercial photography this year. She undertook it in the month of June, the universal Pride Month, which incidentally was also the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in the US that gave birth to the Pride Movement. Want to know more about Stonewall Riots and the Pride Movement? Wikipedia has it all but one of the most easy to understand write-ups is on Encyclopaedia Britannica at this link.
What's outstanding about "Blossom" is that it is a lovely unravelling of the process of coming out of a transgender, posed by Monisha's friend and an LGBTQ activist and Mr India Gay 2014 Sushant Divgikar (in the picture above).
Please check out my interview with Monisha at www.blouinartinfo.com here.
Do check out the slideshow too as the whole series so beautifully reveals the gradual coming out of a transgender. Provocation is not always needed to underscore an important message.
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| Above and Below: Other images from "Blossom." Images courtesy: Monisha Ajgaonkar |
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| That's Monisha. Image courtesy: Monisha Ajgaonkar |
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