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I don8217;t like people,8221; says Mumbai-based photographer Shahid Datawala. 8220;They tend to disrupt the harmony of space.8221;

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I don8217;t like people,8221; says Mumbai-based photographer Shahid Datawala. 8220;They tend to disrupt the harmony of space.8221; His ongoing photography exhibition 8220;Shadowboxing8221; by Tasveer has 44 black-and-white images, all of buildings in Mumbai, with not a single human soul in view.

Wide steps leading to an old-fashioned house with French windows fenced off by a spectral tree; a ritzy residential building at Napean Sea Road; unfinished structures with black-and-white checkered floors and rubble-strewn concrete shells 8212; portraits of an urban environment in a state of transformation. 8220;After moving to Mumbai three years ago, I started mapping the city,8221; says Datawala, 34. 8220;Shadowboxing,8221; he adds, 8220;refers to the time before the actual show begins. Likewise, here the buildings are in a state of change, some held up, others under construction.8221;

The exhibition at Art Motif gallery in Lado Sarai is on till November 23.

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