Riddhi Parekh
Riddhi Parekh is a Mumbai-based photographer whose work spans over 15 years across multiple genres, including portraiture, street, documentary, fashion, and landscapes. Her visual language fluidly merges these styles, blurring traditional boundaries to create imagery that is both expressive and thought-provoking. Rooted in observation and instinct, Riddhi’s photographs are a poetic response to the world around her—sometimes loud, sometimes quiet. Her artistic practice reveals a deep curiosity and a desire to capture unseen connections in everyday moments. Through her lens, she brings art into the ordinary, offering viewers a unique perspective on culture, identity, and visual storytelling.
About Work
Riddhi Parekh’s series brings together music, performance, and everyday life through a distinctly artistic lens. Portraits of Music was born during a cultural tour in Kutch, where rare local instruments were photographed suspended above a lake, visually capturing their vibrations and the soul of music.
In Becoming a Woman, Parekh documents the Gotipua dancers of Odisha—young boys trained in a fading tradition that blends classical dance and acrobatics, offering insight into gender expression and devotion through performance.
Her Train Series, shot spontaneously on a journey from Mumbai to Mathura, boldly challenges the male gaze by placing a white-skinned Indian woman in unguarded, masculine spaces, offering an unapologetic visual narrative on gaze, presence, and perception.
Act One : Becoming
A young Gotipua dancer from Orissa getting ready for his performance. This dying art form of dressing up like women and performing emerged with the decline of Devdasi culture. As a result, the boys were trained to sing, dance and perform acrobatics to preserve the traditions.
Stage for Inconvenience
A fashion series with unapologetic social commentary on the norms between gender interactions.
Stage for Convenience
A fashion series with unapologetic social commentary on the norms between gender interactions.
A God in the Making
An attempt to personify musical instruments. Creating an image which paints a picture of how music would look visually- vibrations, calmness, serenity, elevating, basically everything that makes you feel closer to the concept of god.
…And Scene
A young Gotipua dancer from Orissa fixing a light bulb and using his other friend as a ladder. This dying art form of dressing up like women and performing emerged with the decline of Devdasi culture. As a result, the boys were trained to sing, dance and perform acrobatics to preserve the traditions. The training of becoming a Gotipua dancer is tough and needs unwavering dedication from a very young age. The gurukul approach of learning makes this a part of their lives and blends in with their daily chores seamlessly.
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