As his debut monograph is released, Kavi Pujara talks about his complicated relationship with Leicester’s Golden Mile, being mentored by Martin Parr, and the myth of the British Empire
would pour over photography magazines, mesmerised by the images he’d see. Speaking on Zoom, he holds up a still-pristine old copy, and gushes over the
“It’s complicated,” he said in August, reflecting on his relationship with Leicester’s Golden Mile. A largely multicultural area that hosts the biggest Diwali celebrations outside India, Pujara’s extended family lived close by during his childhood. “It was a different place to what it is now. I remember aunts being careful about hanging laundry, saris and things signalling they were Asian, because people would throw coal dust. So it’s mixed feelings.
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