pictures from bombay cinema halls

April 26th, 2007

Sarai independent fellow Zubin Pastakiais talking pictures of old-style bombay cinema halls, and has started posting them to his blog:

I am currently photographing cinema halls in Bombay, India, the city in which I live. Here, we still have a mix of older, single-screen halls, and modern multiplexes. I am fascinated by the cinema hall – from its built architecture and physical surfaces to the people that come to watch films and the people that work there. The project seeks to photographically explore the cultural experience of different types of cinema halls in Bombay city.

there are some really beautifully shots on the blog already and he promises that there are much more to come. i really like the ones showing projectionists next to those ancient projectors so common in indian cinema halls. i took some very similar shots two years ago in bangalore.

picture by Zubin Pastakiais, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works License.

Paul Keller

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