A Photo from award-winning photographer Pablo Bartholomew’s show in the city a decade ago, Bombay: Chronicles of a Past Life, was once pinned to this writer’s desk. The urge to meet the man in person had lingered since. This time, he is showing The Nagas, a show that explores the Naga civilisation, featuring people torn between tradition and transition, at the Nine Fish Art Gallery in Byculla.

The Nagas is a series of photographs from Pablo Bartholomew’s monumental visual records of the Naga people. “His documentation of these various tribes spreading across the Northeast of India reveals anthropological narratives of traditions entrenched and in flux,” reads the press docket. Pics Courtesy/ © Pablo Bartholomew; All Rights Reserved