Sheikpet Mosque, built in 16th century by the Qutub Shahi Rulers is located in Hyderabad in the Indian state of Telangana. The mosque is built inside a Sarai or guest house complex once served as a praying place for foreign travelers, traders, merchants and officials while they waited for security checks to enter Golconda fort, now lies abandoned. The site that was chosen on the way to the neighbouring Bidar sultanate now lies isolated with walls that serves as a place to store construction material for the multiple housing projects emerging in the area. The beauty of the mosque hides under the thick shrubbery only seen through a metal gate. The visuals in the book are based on the concept of the mosque losing its human touch over the years and becoming a hub for an entirely new audience as it serves as a pad for drug abuse during nocturnal hours according to the locals. The visuals and photographs convey the transition of the mosque from a cultural hub to its current state. The visuals are full of colour as opposed to the photographs that represent the mosque as seen now. The psychedelic looking visuals show the drift of the mosque that now lies lonesome from its glorious past in form of the vivid and intense colour and its transition to a secluded budding ground for drug abuse, with both factors represented through colours and the arrangement of the visuals in patterns along with the photographs
This project was done for the subject Landscape and monument photography taken in my third semester at National Institute of Fashion Technology, Hyderabad.
