They say love is a fundamental emotion. Yet the world has a problem when a man and a woman fall for each other. It reacts even more violently when a man loves a man or a woman is besotted with a woman.
But of late we are seeing a revolution by the same-sex lovers who are coming out unabashedly despite the elbow that they get from society. While we stand with them in solidarity, photographer Arjun Kamath, through his creative works, is giving power to same-sex lovers. His photo series Coming Out is a fictional story about an LGBT couple that many of us would identify with, but not show the courage to admit it.
This 28-year-old photographer from Bangalore is currently studying film and TV production in Los Angeles. His project is no less of an eye-opener:
In Kamath’s depiction, the two girls come out of closet. Their love blossoms. But not in that ideal field where bright sunflowers dance with the breeze or among the vivid roses that bees romance with. They find peace in a place that we would fear to endeavour. But will they be able to live there happily forever? Only if the ghosts of society spared them! Like many such real life stories, theirs too goes up in flames.
