PARANJAPE CHAITALI VASANT
Mr. Saurabh Srivastava
chaitali_p@nid.edu
High Tides is a long-form project set in Vengurla, a coastal town on the Maharashtra–Goa border, exploring the town as both a lived and remembered landscape. Through photography, conversations, and ecological study, the work traces Vengurla’s quiet rhythms, fading traditional trades, shifting shorelines, and the transformation of built structures. The project notes the unnoticed details of domestic life and abandoned sites, creating an open-ended portrait where the past continually overlaps with the present. The work takes form through a photobook and a short film. The photobook, "A Small Fish Caught in the Middle of Seas," overlays maps and images to reveal patterns in the town’s urban morphology. The film offers two intertwined perspectives, that of the land’s guardians and the fishing community, creating a poetic dialogue between people and nature. Ultimately, "High Tides" stays with the uncertainties of a place in flux, capturing what remains, what recedes, and what transforms over time.