Farhiz  Karanjawala

Babsy’s Place: A record of a long-gone world

Babsy's Place: Then and now, with Farhiz Karanjawala in Bombay...

Contact Sheets: A feast to be absorbed, night after night

As contact sheets were typically kept from curious eyes, it only served to increase our fascination with them...

To Mechuka — with two of Leica’s finest M-Mount lenses

I am strapped in for the flight to Dibrugarh. Along with me for the ride are two stars from the Leica firmament stowed in the overhead bin, two of the finest M-Mount creations ⏤ the Leica 35mm Summilux-M f/1.4 and the Leica 50mm Noctilux-M f/0.95 ⏤ on their [first trip to Mechuka] in Arunachal. Tucked in with them is the Leica M11.

Canvas City: Street Art in Berlin

Farhiz explores Berlin's street art — using the city as a canvas...

Stranger In Paradise — On the Dal Lake

The Dal Lake in Srinagar once had as many as three thousand houseboats. Today there are fewer than a thousand and Butts Clermont Houseboats is its crowning jewel...

One Fine Day: A journey into the unknown on the border with China

Almost five years later, in 2022, the four of us reunited for a repeat trip to Mechuka. Gudi confessed that even now she gets nightmares of this near-fatal indident in 2018. Baro and Piliya hadn’t spoken about it to anyone...
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Changing Gear: In at the deep end with the Leica M11 rangefinder

Fahriz takes the first tentative steps with a rangefinder camera, the new Leica M11, and a couple of very fast lenses. Delhi here we come...

Vienna paves its streets with culture. Other cities prefer asphalt

Farhiz takes his beloved Leica X Vario on a personal tour of Vienna, one of the centres of Western culture...

The Golden Fields of Ziro Valley

Baro and I were now on the road to Ziro in Arunachal Pradesh...

Leica X Vario: Retrospective rhapsody in Budapest

Once maligned, now acclaimed: The Leica X Vario makes a pilgrimage to Budapest...

Paris Notes: Making connections

Over twenty years ago, Farhiz backpacked to one of his favourite cities, Paris. His photographs, shot on Kodacolor 200, introduce us to an intriguing glimpse of life in the French capital...

The Blue Mountains of Mizoram

Farhiz takes us into the Blue Mountains of Mizoram and meets the world's largest family and their monster cupboard full of cups...