There is no window in\u00a0Jibak Bhattacharya\u2019s consultation suite, in Kolkata\u2019s Apollo multispeciality hospital. The oncologist took this\u00a0photo in 2024 while on a break. \u201cI often crave sunlight between seeing patients, so I step out on to the landing, which has a huge square glass window where you can enjoy the outside view,\u201d he says. \u201cPreviously, it was unobstructed nature, but they are developing a high-rise now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bhattacharya noticed the pattern made by three workers on the scaffolding, and how you could draw a line straight through it, as in noughts and crosses.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had an idea to show how we, as individuals, are bound and engaged in our small worlds,\u201d he says. \u201cThough we are part of a larger frame, we keep ourselves in small cages, without connecting to others.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bhattacharya applied minimal edits, \u201cmostly cropping out some remaining green bushes to give a more claustrophobic look\u201d.<\/p>\n
Indian construction workers like these have a\u00a0precarious existence. \u201cAs a kid, I wondered about the masons who put the concrete and cement so perfectly on the bricks. It is quite artistic, no doubt. But it is not well paid, and poverty is not something I romanticise. In my job, I have come across a lot of the social, financial and logistical problems these people have to face, and their suffering is unbearable at times. Nobody should suffer like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is no window in\u00a0Jibak Bhattacharya\u2019s consultation suite, in Kolkata\u2019s Apollo multispeciality hospital. The oncologist took this\u00a0photo in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-547557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}