This Woman Joined Forces With Her 86-Year-Old Grandmother To Create This Beautiful Photo Series

"We have grown together in this process; wandering through ideas, questions, conversations and photo performance making."

This is Jasmeen Patheja and her grandmother Inderjit Kaur.

Jasmeen Patheja

For a few years now, they have been collaborating on a project in which Patheja photographs her grandmother in character roles that she desires to become.

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"We got together, when my grandmother expressed that she wanted to be an actor. I wanted to learn photography and video. So, this premise led to mutual exchange. It created a series of photo performances based on characters Indri desires to become," Patheja told BuzzFeed.

"We are both artists. Perhaps that is the best way to describe both of us. As a grandchild, I did not know of her as someone with a professional career, but instead as someone who always pursued her interests with passion and curiosity."

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"She is self initiated and I am inspired by my grandmum. I watched her learn to drive a car, learn how to use the computer. I grew up hearing a list of things that my grandmother wished she had professionally pursued, and acting was one of them. Indri's desire to act was the start of this collaboration,” Patheja added.

Through the project, Patheja has photographed Kaur in various avatars she desires to become.

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Kaur has been a queen, a politician, a student, a scientist and more.

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They've even shot entire video. Once, Kaur was a scientist who examined how to make the right kind of pickle.

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"The collaboration between my grandmother and me, comes from a place of play, desire, fantasy," Patheja told BuzzFeed.

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"Perhaps we are held together by idealism. We have grown together in this process; wandering through ideas, questions, conversations and photo performance making. The collaboration follows its own pace and process. She often says, 'I don’t know where and how I learnt to act' and then to say 'mein kho jaani haan' meaning 'I lose myself in this process', a sentiment we both echo," she added.

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