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Portrait of a People

n the ‘Parsi Nose Project’, fashion photographer Porus Vimadalal recasts the representation of the country’s robust Parsi community in popular culture. The series of images trains its gaze on Parsi noses, distinguishable by their large proportions, and caricatured often, as a harmless physical identifier of subverts the legacy of the Parsi identity by forcing the viewer to confront its evolution.

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