I fed some of the images from SearchKashmir archive into Google’s Deep Dream code. [Method Used] The result from artificial neural network is dystopic, almost a reality, almost a future and almost a past. A machine dreaming of Kashmir.
Source Image: Something I made based on Lal Ded’s sayings |
Verinag. Shot by me in 2014. |
Source Image: Kashmiri Dancers, Srinagar. By Alexandre Jacovleff, 1931 |
Source: Pandit women. 1949 |
Source: A paint of Jhelum Bank in Srinagar by S.H. Raza |
Source: Srinagar by S.H. Raza |
Source: Kashmiri Pandits, 1895 |
Source: A painting by G.R. Santosh |
Source: A painting by G.R. Santosh |
Source: A painting by G.R. Santosh |
Source: A painting by G.R. Santosh |
Source: the famous image by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1948 |
Source: By Brian Brake, 1957 |
Source: Flower seller. By Steve Mccurry.1996 |
Source: Pandit Man, 1928. By Martin Hurlimann. |
Muslim Man. 1928. By Martin Hurlimann. |
Boatwoman. Pandit Vishwanath, boatwoman. 1890s. |
Dal Gate Tang Adda, 1945 |
Nagin Lake. Shot by me in 2014 |
Fateh Kadal, Srinagar July 1944 |
Prayers at Hazrat Bal. Cartier Bresson, 1948 |
‘Prayers at Hazrat Bal. From the book Bonfire of Kashmiriyat: Deconstructing the accession’ (2006) by Sandeep Bamza |
Nagin Lake, Shot by me in 2014 |
Security men on patrol. 2014. |
Jhelum Bank. 2014. |
View from Zaina Kadal. 2014 |