Photography, as a mode of witnessing, makes visible the relational dynamic between photographer and subject. With eastward: explorations along mumbai’s eastern seaboard, Sunhil Sippy brings this dynamic into play through the frailty and beauty he locates within ecosystems of decay, development and industry. Cultivating a raw and unfiltered engagement with the material world and its lingering stillness, he presents an archive of a less-frequented stretch of his city, now increasingly drawn into the ambitions of urban expansion.