Mahesh Bhat

Mahesh Bhat I am a photographer, photo educator, independent publisher and organic farmer.

Lasting Evidence and Other Essays is a collection of essays on photography. These are not dense academic essays but are ...
24/10/2024

Lasting Evidence and Other Essays is a collection of essays on photography. These are not dense academic essays but are writing that is accessible to all interested in photography. Please use the link below to purchase your copy or gift to someone!
PS - I need to sell another 100 copies to pay for the printing!

Lasting Evidence & Other Essays is an anthology of essays on photography written between 2012-2014. Binding: Softcover Size: A5 Pages: 80 Language: English Mahesh Bhat Publishing. 2024

September is supposed to be Bangalore's wettest month. The average rainfall is 200mm. Our area received 26.3mm this mont...
01/10/2024

September is supposed to be Bangalore's wettest month. The average rainfall is 200mm. Our area received 26.3mm this month. Unless we get good rains in the next two months, we may see another hot, hot summer. The vagaries of climate change are hitting us hard, so there is no time to lose. Why we should conserve nature is not even a question anymore.

"I urge photographers to dig deep within, frequently question their motive to photograph, and understand what they want ...
05/09/2024

"I urge photographers to dig deep within, frequently question their motive to photograph, and understand what they want to say and why. Photography, for me, is becoming a vehicle for an inward journey. To know myself and to understand life. In this journey, I seek answers for why things are how they are.
Lasting Evidence and Other Essays - Anthology of writings on Photography. Please use this link to buy or gift a copy
https://www.maheshbhat.com/shop/lasting-evidence-other-essays/

The early part of the second decade of the 21st century was an important point in the history of Bangalore/Bengaluru – o...
27/08/2024

The early part of the second decade of the 21st century was an important point in the history of Bangalore/Bengaluru – our city. It’s the time when the already exponential growth rate went exponentially chaotic. Between 2015 and now, the population and the number of vehicles on the street doubled and equalled each other in numbers. We are experiencing or suffering the result of this thoughtless ‘development’ today. Can the city ever become a better place? I don’t know and I won’t hazard a guess. However, the book I published in 2012 – Bangalore/Bangalore In First Person, is a visual record of the city that was and what it could be. Several thousand copies of this book have been sold over the years. I still have a few hundred books with me. Through this post, I am requesting the help of book loving friends to help me sell the remaining copies. It costs Rs.600/- only (Less than two masala dosas at Blr airport and less than 2 cups of coffee in a multi-national coffee chain). Those of you who wish to purchase Deepavali or New Year’s gifts for your clients – please consider buying copies of this book. I can print your logo on the first page if you purchase multiple copies…

“If Bangalore was a song and the lyrics were the ages the city has seen this book, quite incomparably, is the tune the city has been searching for all these years” – DNA, Feb Did you know that there are several cities within Bangalore? Did you know that a centuries old festival is a beacon...

Lasting Evidence & Other Essays, an anthology of my essays on photography, has been published and is now ready for dispa...
20/08/2024

Lasting Evidence & Other Essays, an anthology of my essays on photography, has been published and is now ready for dispatch. People who have supported this project by preordering will soon receive their signed and numbered copies! Please use this link to buy your copy or gift it to someone you know!

Lasting Evidence & Other Essays is an anthology of essays on photography written between 2012-2014. Binding: Softcover Size: A5 Pages: 80 Language: English Mahesh Bhat Publishing. 2024

A lovely essay on the friendship and creative partnership of Kv Sridhar and KS Chax - my mentors and dear friends!
04/08/2024

A lovely essay on the friendship and creative partnership of Kv Sridhar and KS Chax - my mentors and dear friends!

As Friendship Day approaches, we capture the long-lasting friendship of Pops and Chax and their bond that extends beyond work into personal life.

31/07/2024

I got a mail from someone from https://www.facebook.com/BWBusinessworld Inviting nominations for 'BW Art World Masterpiece 40 under 40 Summit and Awards 2024'—the beauty part? There is a fee. If I have to nominate, I have to pay Rs.15K+ taxes, apparently to cover the operational costs of the event! Ha! This is the best thing I have heard after income tax relief given in the latest budget.

"What do you teach?" is a question I hear often. I have tried to answer it in this essay.
12/07/2024

"What do you teach?" is a question I hear often. I have tried to answer it in this essay.

I have now spent ten years as an educator in higher education. I dropped out of formal education after completing 12th standard and spending two and a half excruciating and mind numbing years trying to pursue an undergraduate degree in science. It was 1986. I did not even dream that I would be an ed...

https://www.maheshbhat.com/we-need-a-nourishing-My new blog post, 'Soil that Nourishes, ' highlights the pressing need t...
05/07/2024

https://www.maheshbhat.com/we-need-a-nourishing-
My new blog post, 'Soil that Nourishes, ' highlights the pressing need to develop ecosystems that support creativity in all areas. Please read on.

I was fortunate to spend a few hours at Ai Weiwei’s monumental show, Making Sense, at The Design Museum in London in July 2023. After seeing and trying to absorb what he was trying to say, I sat on a bench and wondered why we weren’t seeing such a powerful expression on that scale in...

Lasting Evidence is at the press! The books will be ready for dispatch in about two weeks. A big thanks to all who have ...
09/06/2024

Lasting Evidence is at the press! The books will be ready for dispatch in about two weeks. A big thanks to all who have already pre-ordered the book! The project needs your support. I need another 80+ books purchased @ Rs.500 per copy to make this project happen! Please use this form to indicate your support, and I will send the payment details immediately.
https://forms.gle/mUt2upQEPu8dqtJdA

01/06/2024

Perhaps the most enduring visual trope in Indian advertising and promotional material is the "happy family." From financial products to health care, the happy family finds its way. In the 90s, it used to be a couple, two children—a girl and a boy, grandfather and grandmother. Don't ask me about paternal or maternal grandparents—no one knew the answer; it wasn't even a question. I photographed several 'happy family images in the '90s when I was doing advertising photography. It continues today, but the grandparents seem to have vanished from the visuals. Couples in these images are in their early thirties with two children who might be 7-8 years old. The happy family also finds its way to video promotional material sourced from stock libraries, and the people are Caucasians; the clients aren't bothered, and ad agencies are happy as long as the client is happy or not bothered. Does this bother the consumers or these visuals? Or has all of it become a 'blind spot'?

In India, one of the most difficult things to do is to raise money to produce independent artistic works, such as books,...
24/05/2024

In India, one of the most difficult things to do is to raise money to produce independent artistic works, such as books, films, photography projects, theatre, dance, etc. I have managed to publish three books by crowd-sourcing funds. Two more book projects are on the anvil. One such is Lasting Evidence and Other Essays, anthologies of my essays on photography. Please support this project by getting a meaningful book for yourself and gifting more to friends. It costs just Rs.500/- And you don't have to pay me now. I need 200 confirmations to go ahead and print. I have about 100. Please use this link (https://forms.gle/ptis2WomBNeqL5zU7) to let me know if you wish to purchase a copy. If you have already done so, please share this in your networks.

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