In the Bazaar includes the photographic works of Kamal Badhey and Gurnoor Singh. It is a conversation between two photographers and their long term projects Portals and Passageways and Life at Chawri, geographically located in bazaars of South Asia in Delhi and Hyderabad.
The project speaks both with and back to the idea of the bazaar as a place of chaos. Instead, the photographers’ intentions are to make sense of the places of commerce, community, and activity through the camera. The order that is created involves visually connecting with the urban landscape through walking, sometimes tentatively and sensitively as a means of understanding. It is slow connections to the moment, which may imbue the active, but also the stark stillness of memory and history within its walls. Each artist engaged with their internal chaos through making order by interacting with the bazaar. Gurnoor is thinking through Chawri’s exteriors and the outside world, while Kamal engaging in acts of reclamation through encounters with deceased ancestral spaces.