City as Collage

Sameer’s relationship with the city transforms into a visual collage that blends and rearranges photography and drawn forms in this work. He very often uses photography as an observational tool, seeing the city as a patchwork - a collage of many seemingly disconnected elements that come together over periods of time. The work takes form of a zine, a format that reflects Sameer’s interest in accessible, independent publishing. It invites the viewer to flip through the city page by page, with two unique photographs tucked inside the cover pages like personal bookmarks or quiet discoveries. Here, the city becomes both subject and medium, like a constant shape-shifting, living, breathing, organism, where change is the only constant. Kulavoor doesn’t just document it but offers it back to us as something both known and entirely new.