The archive,
uncropped.

Every photograph here is shown whole. Nothing is trimmed to fit a frame — no face, no insignia, no nameplate, no standard behind a desk. Select any plate to open it at full size.

I. Service portraiture

Plates 01 — 04

Sanjay Kharat in Indian Police Service uniform wearing a beret, with the I.P.S. shoulder title and a name plate reading Sanjay Kharat.

Close portrait of Sanjay Kharat smiling, wearing a peaked service cap with the state police badge, against a plain white background.

Sanjay Kharat standing in ceremonial police dress with peaked cap, lanyard and baton, against a plain white background.

Formal portrait of Sanjay Kharat in police uniform with peaked cap, lanyard and rank insignia, indoors against a wooden panelled wall.

II. The Superintendent's office

Plates 05 — 06

Sanjay Kharat seated at the Superintendent of Police desk with the national flag and departmental standards behind him and a desk nameplate reading Sanjay Kharat, I.P.S.

Sanjay Kharat seated at his desk in beret, reviewing a document with a pen in hand, the national flag beside him.

On this group The office of a Superintendent of Police is a deliberately formal room. The national flag, the departmental standards and the desk nameplate are not decoration — they identify the authority under which every order signed at that desk is issued.

III. Speaking on the record

Plates 07 — 08

Sanjay Kharat seated at his office desk addressing a camera, with the national flag and the Gujarat Police emblem on the wall behind him.

Sanjay Kharat in uniform seated in an armchair in conversation with an interviewer during a recorded discussion.

Note

This archive holds every photograph supplied for the project. Each is displayed at its own natural proportions inside a fixed plate, so that no part of the subject is cut away to suit a layout.

Enquiries

The archive,uncropped.

I. Service portraiture

II. The Superintendent's office

III. Speaking on the record

The archive,
uncropped.