{"product_id":"mahesh-shantaram-matrimania","title":"Mahesh Shantaram: Matrimania","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e“All that is great about a country and all that is wrong with it can be summarised by a single wedding,” says Indian photographer Mahesh Shantaram (born 1977). In his documentary work, he mostly studies the complex societal system of his home country. Working as a wedding photographer, he has had privileged access to a cross-section of celebrations of the Indian upper- and middle-class societies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYoung adults assume the role of princes and princesses in a Bollywood-like fantasy often choreographed by their parents. On the periphery, a multitude of workers entertain crowds, cater to thousands of guests, and keep the show going on for days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eUsing images culled from over 150 weddings and created in the course of six years, Matrimania constructs a fictional narrative—an alternative wedding album—that depicts one long wedding night in India. Matrimania is a personal take on 21st-century India’s contradictions seen through the prism of its wedding culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"General\/Misc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64631898407281,"sku":"idi1789828382141","price":50.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1018\/8134\/8465\/files\/mahesh-shantaram-matrimania_1.jpg?v=1789828386","url":"https:\/\/sweepcutwear.shop\/products\/mahesh-shantaram-matrimania","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}