Fini Buru (Take your brain for a walk around Male’ City)
When I close my eyes, I can still imagine the sounds, the smells, which corners to take. But it is all an illusion of memory. A mental prison from which I must escape.
Self portrait.
Digital Illustration and collage using my film photographs of Male’ City. Mostly Lomo-LCA and Vivitar Ultrawide & Slim with a mix of film stocks.
Part of an ongoing project to put my photographic archives of the Maldives to rest.
(2025)
Goalhi Kanmathi (Street corner)
Another collage from my old photographs. This time using a more mechanical approach with film scans from 2008. All photos are from two rolls taken in 2008. The blue hues are from cross processed Kodak Elite Chrome 100 shot through a Vivitar Ultrawide and Slim. The muted tones are from Clark Colour 200 shot through an original USSR model Lomo LC-A, with many shots using the multi-exposure function. All shot around my neighbourhood in Malé City around the time of the fall of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s 30 year dictatorship.
Minikaa Raajjé (Cannibal Kingdom)
Paradise is where you eat each other to survive
Kihinéh Vee? (What Happened?)
Fever dreams of development in paradise