About The People Place Project:
The People Place Project is an initiative to chronicle the life and times we live in. Through a lens of people and places, we hope to pin together the narrative of how we have come to be here - our language, our thoughts, our attire, our structures - everything that defines us. The Project will travel through cities of the world to unravel fresh individual narrative
s that add to the whole. Started in 2014 under the title People Called Mumbai, the project now aims to travel across the prime cities of India and the globe. About People Called Mumbai
What makes Mumbai ‘Mumbai’, is its people. Every person here has a story in his own - but their story is not theirs alone. Many a time, it belongs to a collective narrative, falling into compartments of the city's history. It is in this context, we conducted a publication project - People Called Mumbai. Begun as a summer workshop, the project has blossomed into a narrative of how this city was weaved by narratives of people born here and those that made her their home. A photographer at Juhu Chowpatty who doubles up as a life guard, a businessman dealing with beads in Bhuleshwar who came to the city to fulfill his dreams, a stranded tourist now riding horse carriages, a Bollywood ‘duplicate’, a migrant who runs the city’s only Tibetian restaurant and many more - they bring alive Mumbai. We often zoom past people, landmarks, places, with a little thought to what they hold within.
