Artwork description:

The international travel ban and swift nationwide lockdown left me stranded in India from March 2020 to mid August of the same year. Heavy policing - beatings and fines, made the streets unsafe except for in an emergency, so for exercise I started walking on the beach either at first light or just before dusk. I generally took a camera, and captured shots of the beach dogs, cows and fishermen forced to fish from the shores, first by the pandemic, and then by monsoon. This is one of several images that I shot to include in my ongoing 'Son of A Beach' project. I named this cow Fatima - she was originally on a pasture at the back of the beach but the monsoon winds blew down the rudimentary fencing, and so she would generally take herself down to the beach of an afternoon, for a paddle and a snooze in the late afternoon sun. Printed on 308gsm Hahnemüle Photorag archive paper with a matt finish, each print is signed numbered and dated on the front outside the image area, and comes with a certificate of authenticity.

Materials used:

Epson fine art inks on Hahnemühle Photorag 308 gsm art paper.

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