VILLAGE DOOR
This project was inspired by Travels to my parents home in India when I was a child. I remember sitting in our courtyard and looking out our front door always seeing the Villagers looking in. We were one of the first families in our Village to send someone abroad to start a new life. We often had visitors come and go from abroad and neighbours just coming in to speak with my parents. So, when I last visited 10 years ago, I decided to plant myself in the Courtyard with my camera and snap the Villagers walking by our front door. Some just walked by, some looked in, and some came in.
WHERE WE HAVE BEEN
This Project was completed for a Group Exhibition in 2014 for the Surrey Art Gallery. I created four face-mounted chromogenic photographic prints on plexiglass. These Four prints were acquired by the SAG and are now part of their permanent collection.
Gallery write up : Ravi Gill’s Little India series captures a series of hybrid views of Surrey’s Little India communities, both at its historical location in the are of Scott road and its present location in Newton, around the intersection of 128th Street and 80th avenue.
Gill’s composite photographs capture the fragmented aspects of life in Surrey, particularly for diasporic communities. As a rapidly developing city with a large migrant population - itself named after a country in Britain - much of Surrey’s identity is oriented towards other times and places. In Gill’s works, streets, shops and restaurants combine with views of the birds and the sky above, suggesting a connection between the local and elsewhere.
INDIA ROOFTOPS
This series explores the importance of Rooftops in India and how they are utilized as not only a “roof over our heads”, but as place to enjoy, relax, and escape. I have childhood memories of sleeping outside on our Village homes roof in a Mosquito net staring up at the stars. Playing with my siblings and neighbours, spying in on homes and playing hide and seek.
TIME PASS...
POINT A to B or C,D,E.... .
This series of images was collected in various areas of India during my travels in 2011.
After sometime I reflected on my images and themes, along with commonalities begin to emerge in my photography, that I at the time did know I was creating. Capturing the way people moved about, how they used a method of transportation, what purpose it served at that moment, who used it and more are all thought and questions that come to mind for me when looking at this series. 
