Faces of Bengaluru: Telling unheard stories

Karnataka By Prutha Chakraborty January 16, 2023 Read the article

Humans of New York— a photoblog of street portraits and interviews of New York City — began as Brandon Stanton’s passion project.

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Inspired by HONY, Vikas Badiger, born and raised in Bengaluru, started Faces of Bengaluru in 2016 to tell vibrant tales of the city and its people.

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Badiger misses the old parts of the city, where traffic was less, streets a lot quieter, and the skyline greener.

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“In 2008, when I was in the ninth grade, I took my mother’s cell phone on a trip to Madikeri,” he recalls. “I have not stopped taking photos of sunsets since then.”

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“Most of the stories that feature on Faces of Bengaluru are stories that don’t make it to the mainstream publications,” he clarifies.

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The first story he did was on the owners of the iconic Vidyarthi Bhavan, which turns 80 this year and is still relevant to Bengaluru’s old-timers.

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After 326 posts on Instagram, the page today has 15.3K followers. But Badiger thinks “it still isn’t big” as a platform.

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The platform has expanded into making documentaries. Valley of Stories is about artists from the Aravani Art Project who learn photography and document their narratives.

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Another film, Spirit Circle, is about the frisbee community. The 60-minute documentary showcases how the sport came to Bengaluru in the late 2000s.

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Thou Shalt Not Steel featured the citizen-led protests in October 2016 against the proposed steel flyover in the city.

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Badiger wants to continue taking this project to new heights. “It has been a rollercoaster of a journey,” he says.

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