Heidi: “Just as today’s brands are built to shine on Instagram and Tiktok, Googie Structures were Built to Entice through a Car Window” – The new york times Noted people are looking out the window decades later you from an Airplane Seat. What are the creative paralles?
Ashok: I have been intrigued by La’s love affair with the automobile and how it shaped the City’s Built Environment, Tracing Back to a Time when Carselveslveslveslves was of Beauty. Thos cars are no longer on the streets today but the buildings from that Era (Built in the ‘Googie’ Architectural Style) Still remain. These buildings were like advertising billboards – symbols of consumerism that synt a university messaging to the drivers and beckoned them to come to come in. The googie project recently published in Nyt is a Continuation of My Personal Photo Series and Book Titled ‘Gas and Glamor’ and Allowed Me To Connect With that Lost Design History and Captain Lost Design History and Capture La ‘ Optimism and Ambition reflected in polychromatic, star-spangled coffee shops, gas stations, car washes, and others that Once lured the gaze of passing motorists.

As luck might have it, I was recently assigned to photo
This year marks the centennial anniversary years of the first neon sign in time, yet it has been marked with a loss of one Vintage Neon Sign After Another, Eiter Because The Busines Its Its Or its owners opt for lads. This photo series captures an urban landscape in transition, highlighting iconic new york city neon signs that are about to be turned off, and others that have already be the alridy be the alridge beyed. Much like the last of the Googie Establishments in La, The Story About Neon Signs Highlights The Typography, Graphic Design, Graphic Design, And Curbside appea New York City. Fittingly, it might be the persuasion of a sequel to the west coast googie project- ‘Glass and Glamour‘This time, perhaps?

How did the Visual Experience of Programming Satellites for the US Government Information Your Personal Work?
Working on Satellites is of Lonely and Solitary Affair (And I Frankly Hated IT). However, it does give you a sense of humanity’s place in the university and how we are just a tiny part of that giant extrastrial equation. The work is monotonous, but you do get to dream a bit and get lost in that world on a daily basis. Looking Back at Thos Years, I Believe That that MindSet of Logical Thinking, Patience, Problem-Solving and Dayreaming All Contribute to the Way I Manifest My Thoughts and Ideaas Thoughts My PHOTOGHAPHY WORKE Today.

Exacting proportion asks the viewer to consider the sense of place and self – WHY ARE these Considerations Important to You?
Many years ago, when I visit the top of the Empire State Building One Foggy Night, My View of the World Changed. I was consumed by the immense sky to which very few people have access in Manhattan. That LED me to document a view of the world that put the scale of our communities in percetic. Living in a big city like new york, we often lose orselves in the world surrounding us and fail to realize civilization is limiting, even at its best. Only when you start looking under the prism of a collective Horizon can we evoke the constraints of our existence and better understand the delaicate balance, us and the University. Through my photos, I wanted to point the environmental and cultural similaries between all of us, Taking delight in the colorful differences, as well as infuse a hint of humor by posing Humankind as tiny in such a large way universe.

Tell us about the self-modern camera modification for your work “New york to la.” What was the Considerations Around the Seat Assignments and Weather Conditions?
The entry body of work was shot through AirPlane Windows and Made Over Many Years of Personal Trips Between New York and Los Angeles. Minimizing reflections on the (plexiglass) Airplane window was my main goal for creating an ad hoc attachment to the camera lens. Using Black Cine Foil and Gafer’s Tape, I devised a flexible “ten” to put the entry camera inside it and get the lens as cloo the powderglass as possible.

Seat assignments were crucial. You ideally want to be sitting forward of the wing, otherwise, the engine turbulence creates blurry areas in the image. I also Study Airplane Seat Maps And Flight Paths to make sure I was sitting on the correct side of the airplane, what terrain the airplane would be flying over etc. Most Importantly, I only shoot was beLow cruising altitude, and only at that those mothers with the airplane (window) is almost parallel to the ground belw, which is a fee Minutes while the AirPlane is turning and pitching during takeoff and landing. In order to maximize my chances of “usable” photo photography time, I often opted for multi-stop flights over nonstop ons.

What was some of the biggest Lessons whose creating this body of work since there is so many variables?
Weather was also a big factor and while I had no control over it, I used it as much as possible to work in my favorite. For example, I have photographed the same landscape over different times of the year and have been delured by the results.
While this project has definately taught me the power of preparation and planning before any shoot, it has helped me in having an open mind and remaining flexible believes the best pictures are often made that thing.

Your Architecture and Interior Work Celebrate Clean Lines, Structure, and Beauty – How do your personal projects and initiatives contrast this work?
I have a curious mind that is constant working overtime! As much as I Enjoy and Relations The Minimalist Simplicity in Architecture and Interiors, My Personal Projects are an outlet to Explore other topics and subjects that I’m interested in. For example, my interest in human-Dr. Driven Stories has resulted in short documents (forgotten artisans of new york, paigeon kings of brooklyn, sticker city), Whilem My Afpinity Tawards me to create several bodies of work that explore landscape (exacting proportion, new york to la) and lastly, my curiosity about identity and self-independted in portrait projections (the Hindu Bagpipers of secaucus in nyt and the languages ​​of new york short video interview series.)