Summary:
Besides these, the exhibits include photographs taken by Dattatraya during Holi and shoots at Chembur’s RK Studio. Unlike other Koliwadas of the city, Chendani Koliwada underwent a lot of development. My parent’s wedding photographs were taken by him. NEARLY 15 years after his death, 140 photographs from the collection of Dattatraya Mahadeo Koli, fondly known as ‘Diana’ in the Koli community of Thane’s Chendani Koliwada (where the Kolis live), is being exhibited at a pop-up museum of fisherfolk community of Mumbai. It is unfortunate that people in Chendani Koliwada hardly speak in the Koli dialect,” says Parag, who plans to periodically hold pop-up museums and highlight different aspects of the life in Koliwadas..