{"product_id":"afterlife-1","title":"Afterlife","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eMumbai’s politicians have an insatiable appetite for visibility. Their faces appear on banners, hoardings and walls, only to be replaced by another face, another birthday, another festival, another claim to public space. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAfterlife began with Ritesh Uttamchandani's compulsive photographing of these chamcha hoardings and grew into a book about their production, proliferation, disappearance and reuse. The photographs bleed into one another, fragment and collide, much like the banners that crowd Mumbai’s streets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePrinted on glossy paper reminiscent of party manifestos and bound beneath a cover made from salvaged hoarding material, Afterlife gives permanence to images whose life goal is to disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA photobook about Mumbai, political vanity, public space and the strange things we leave behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Self Published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52892007629082,"sku":"9789359967905","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1022\/3793\/files\/afterlife_d6f91dc6-991f-4f47-bd1c-50b7a6fc78c3.jpg?v=1789640215","url":"https:\/\/villagebooks.co\/products\/afterlife-1","provider":"Village","version":"1.0","type":"link"}