Tarla Patel
​​​​​​​Tarla Patel is the legacy holder of her father’s photography archive.  The Masterji archive is a collection of studio and family portraiture documenting the lives of migrants especially from the South Indian Subcontinent from the early 1950s to 2000s. Tarla worked with her father to be his representative in exhibitions, interviews as part of the Coventry UK City of Culture bid and overseas exhibitions. 

Tarla is studying MA Contemporary Arts at Coventry University, works at Warwick university and has her own arts practice in analogue film and instant photography, and other image based medium. 

I'll stop talking third person, I am interested in a lot of things, that I see in my photography and image making, I have  and still am exploring female narrative, family, representation, identity and loss.  I also have a thing for brutalist buildings, and places that look lost.   There is an air of nostalgia in work, I'm not aiming for coffee shop and Instagram memories, but something that does remind you, or you could relate to.

Areas of interest, deconolisation and use of non gallery space.

Medium used: darkroom photography and development, polaroid instant film, lomokino, lomography, smart phone (gifs, effects, apps -mobile low budget free stuff)
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