“The Bedroom Diary” is a cultural study between the two versatile contrasts of the American and Indian cultures and the most secret place in a person’s life: their bedroom. It is a documentary of people and how they live their life in their culture with insight to their bedrooms, with intricate experiences through time and with life’s idiosyncrasies. This study has two chapters, the first is for the United States and second is for my native country, India.
My interest for this series comes from the inception of photography. Daytime, the deadlier hour of day, has a lighting condition in which a million scenarios can capture the life of both heartland and motherland. Treading the footsteps in the conventions of Walker Evans, the forefather of the documentary tradition and Barbara Peacock were my inspirations for this journey. My journey for “The Bedroom Diary” began 8 weeks ago to demonstrate the mass culture impact on individuals.
I am studying in Northern Kentucky University, so I decided to shoot in Kentucky and Ohio, in the heart of the USA. The second chapter will come on a trip back to India to diversify and finalize my photography chronicles of my journey in “The Bedroom Diaries”.