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HelloitsmeShruti

👉 Arts, Events, Business & Fine Objects Arts, Events, and Fine Objects photographer working out of Belgium.

27/05/2026

There’s the joy of learning a new physical skill. And then there’s the joy of the people who dance Lindy Hop.

My life has become richer since I began dancing this partner dance. Not only because of the movement itself, but because of the warmth, playfulness, and generosity that seem to follow this dance everywhere.

Yesterday was World Lindy Hop Day.
Also, the birthday of Frankie Manning, one of the most influential figures in Lindy Hop, and a teacher to our teacher, .be 🧡

I’m grateful for this legacy that it somehow touched my life too, and brought me into an ever-growing community across the world.

I feel so small, and yet so connected to it all.

19/05/2026

The kind of gestures that become commonplace when people feel safe, seen and in community.

📷 for Arenberg

15/05/2026

Migration is normal.

🎵📷 Nothing Bigger Than Humanity at ‘Migration is Normal’

with equal parts empathy and audacity.

14/05/2026

Leaning further into my love for prickly and fuzzy subjects.

Which is slightly ironic, because in my culture, one is generally discouraged from keeping thorny plants at home.
Unfortunately for tradition, those are often the ones I find most beautiful.
Not in spite of their sharpness, but because of it.

A few years ago, while visiting the Venice Biennale, I came across a monumental agave and later learned more about traditions in other parts of the world where cacti are placed at the entrance of homes as protection against the evil eye.

Somewhere between these beliefs, I found a quiet compromise.
If I cannot keep them, I can still draw them close in other ways. Paint them.
Photograph them. Print them. Let them exist as small protective symbols, somewhere between tenderness and defence.

These images are part of an ongoing exploration of thorny and fuzzy things: the beautiful, the guarded, the slightly untouchable.

And I want to approach it slowly and intentionally.
Not by producing endless copies, but by becoming more precise with the storytelling, the image selection, and the printmaking itself.

So small batches of prints from these explorations will quietly continue to appear from time to time.

01/05/2026

Only 14 photos.
The rest- lost to light and too much force 🤦‍♀️
Lessons learned, courtesy and the nice stranger who shared their similar experience.

PS: I’ll be coming back, Chennai. You owe me memories ;)

21/04/2026

You must pause.
Zoom in.
Maybe even lower yourself slightly to meet the work where it sits.
It’s what craft asks of you.

📷 ‘Rings That Rock’ and ‘Magic Mirror on the Wall’, temporary exhibitions at DIVA museum, Antwerp.

15/04/2026

The repetition of gesture. The way tools pass through hands. The small adjustments that don’t call attention to themselves.
There’s a kind of closeness in that.
 Between hand, tool, and material.
Something that builds slowly, often disappearing again in the final result.

📷 Hands, tools and making processes, documented in the ateliers and homes of craftspersons and makers.
2022- ongoing.

08/04/2026

There’s a particular kind of attention that lives behind a polishing wheel.

Having worked in the diamond sector, I’ve come to recognise how much of the craft sits in small, repeated decisions.
Pressure, angle, timing, all adjusted almost imperceptibly, but carrying real consequences.
The margin for error is almost non-existent.
 And yet, there is a narrow space where experience takes over - a moment where a polisher can still adjust, refine, and shape the outcome, while remaining faithful to the stone itself.

It’s precise work, but never mechanical.
There’s judgment in it. Experience.
A way of seeing that’s difficult to describe, but immediately recognisable when you’re close to it.

Antwerp has always carried this through its people.
Not only through trade, but through those who continue to work at the level of the material itself.

Today felt like a good moment to return to that.

📷 ‘Journey of a Dreamcatcher’ (2020 - 2022)
Pieter Bombeke, Master Diamond Polisher
Antwerp.

15/02/2026

Recently, I spent some time learning enlargement and contact printing.
It was a reminder of something I’ve been exploring over the past year, while playing with film during my travels-

Slower. More deliberate. More attentive to light, space, and what’s actually there.
Choosing a medium that offers enough freedom to achieve this,
while taking away the cushioning that comes with digital photography.

Yet, inadvertently, this way of working is quietly sharpening how I approach all of my projects,
digital included. It’s changing how I prepare, how I frame, and how I listen before making an image.

Thank you Team for the great energy, critical feedback sessions, and doses of cutting chai.
I’ll be back ✌️

Images:
1, 2 - Mumbai ’24, ’25.
3- Cairo ’25
4- Siwa ’25
5, 6, 7, 8, 9- Chennai ‘ 26
10- Abu Dhabi ’26 (Thank you for this memory Simon)

17/01/2026

Inspiration - BEIGE

Adres

Antwerp

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