Visual Narrative: City of Shopkeepers: Mumbai’s Original Gig Workers.

In Dadar's century-old flower market, hawkers play hide and seek with the state that both polices and depends on them. As court-ordered evictions clear Mumbai's streets, these photographs from a Sunday morning capture a trade — and a way of life — surviving on borrowed time before the city's gentrification is complete.

Visual Narrative

City of Shopkeepers: Mumbai’s Original Gig Workers

Photographs from Dadar’s early morning flower market, one of the city’s oldest hawking economies, surviving in the narrowing space between the law and everyday livelihood.

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Gopal

Gopal MS is a photographer, writer and visual storyteller behind Mumbai Paused, an independent documentary project documenting Mumbai's streets, people and everyday life. Stories onInstagram: @mumbaipaused Substack: mumbaipaused.substack.com’