With a father reared in the western tradition and a mother from the Hindu culture, Aryani has a foot in both worlds. Trained in the demanding art of Bharatanatyam Indian dance, she has performed solos from age five. For some seven years photographer Martin Miller, her grandfather, conducted formal photoshoots in her home, in his home, and during her Indian dance performances. This book is the wonderful result of a unique collaboration between a photographer and his young and talented model, between a grandfather and his granddaughter.
My approach owes something to both the modernist attempt to intuit universal insights and the more pragmatic, culture-oriented, postmodern approach. The latter does little to explain our remarkable creative capacities and dreams, but the former has little to do with political, social, and economic realities. Our fears seem to straddle both camps, fueled by our imaginations and by objective reality. My goal is to create work that reflects a synthesis of these rather disparate conceptual systems in order to realize more fully the nature of our human heritage.
Awards
Silver Medalist, Professional Fine-Art Architecture, 2012 Prix de la Photographie Paris
