Experience Olympe Ramakrishna's Women of Urban India installation at Alliance Française in Hyderabad, showcasing 12 oil portraits on silk suspended from the ceiling.

A French-Indian visual artist, her work focuses on identity, memory, and cultural intersections. Women of Urban India is a series of 12 portraits that reflect the essence of the contemporary woman ...

WHEN we think about the legacy of indentured labourers, the plants that they brought with them and these botanicals’ impact ...

the Creole Portraits III: “bringing down the flowers…” (2010–11), as a tribute to the many enslaved women whose names and faces remain absent from history. The anonymous heads are seen ...

A 19-year-old mechanic in Nigeria who maintains the water supply, a ground-breaking jazz guitarist from Sudan, deep-sea diving women in their ... Here is a selection of portraits featured in ...

Of the portraits, Ramakrishna has portrayed 11 women from her own friends ... Her work reflects her milieu of urban Indian landscapes, and weaves in vivid textiles on rooftop terraces.