Driving past Worli Sea Face on a Sunday evening, this writer’s gaze fell on a rather unusual billboard perched atop a bus stop. A space that’s typically reserved for flashy advertisements, the billboard was a black-and-white photograph of a Koli fisherwoman, and the accompanying text indicated that noted director and screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala had captured it. This writer later learned that the billboard is one of the 15 selected for Worli-based Priyasri Art Gallery’s Billboard-Bus Shelter Project. These billboards dot the stretch from Worli to Mantralaya, in Nariman Point and, as Priyasri Patodia the gallery’s founder explains, feature works by established and young artists whose lives have been carved in the city of Mumbai.

Art by Baiju Parthan at Dr Annie Besant Road