I have been working on my father's archive from 2015, I was lucky to be able to interview my dad, and talk to him about the photographs he had taken in the studio and in our home. This is a labour of love, that I am invested in not only for my family, but to research and investigate his photography in the context of being an Indian photographer in post war Britain, capturing images oh fellow migrants and new comers to the city of Coventry from the 1950s to 2000. The Masterji archive is a collection of black and white photographs taken on a medium format camera to 35mm colour photographs to using a digital SLR. The start of hs story and images will be found here http://http://masterji.photography
Masterji - Photography Archive
Tarla Patel, with her family 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.