Ali Monis Naqvi - Untitled, from the series Jahan, 2019

Inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper
30 x 22,5 cm
Edition of 10+2AP
Signed and numbered on a separate label

About the photographer
Ali Monis Naqvi is a photographer based in Goa, India. His work, rooted in everyday life and attending to small, often overlooked moments, traces the undercurrents of the political climate in the Indian subcontinent. Nominated by the British Journal of Photography for the 2023 Ones to Watch, his work has been exhibited and appeared in leading international publications.
Ali Monis Naqvi was selected as one of the Foam Talents in 2026. His work is part of the Foam Talent show, which is on display at Foam until 28 August 2026.

About the work
"..And so, each time I find myself in this neighbourhood I think of Ali Monis Naqvi’s work Jahan/ جہان; a gift to his late grandmother; a gift of dreams, of places and of aspirations that don’t need language to be understood. Through Jahan/ جہان, Ali imagines his beloved grandmother’s rooftop garden in her neighbourhood, Chamanganj, in Kanpur, Utter Pradesh. Imagined beyond its confines, Naqvi uses the garden to capture the intangible vastness of love and tenderness he has for her. A careful collection of images from his travels, of birds and plants awaits you, demanding care and closeness.

There is a sense of home in the tenderness captured in his work, homes he has made for himself, away from his own. Revealing a magnificence that gets tucked away in the mundane, Naqvi highlights what the eye is so used to ignoring. His work is a gift, using his grief to offer an unending remembrance, a promise to the one who has passed, justice to sights never seen."

Text by Rah Naqvi for Foam Magazine #68: Talent

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