Arkandoz Photography, walther-von-cronberg-platz 7, Frankfurt (2026)

29/10/2023

Namaste comrades,

Sometime in the early 90s, the “all-American” burger finally came to Kannur, it wasn’t American despite the flag on the pushcart. I'm not even sure how they made it back then, but I vaguely remember chicken cutlets smothered in Maggi ketchup and pressed between buns. Google tells me it’s called a Bun tikki and was thought up in the 80s. I think that’s right because a burger tikki was a thing.
Specifics aside, I think they saw pictures of a hamburger deconstructed the visible bits and rebuilt a desi burger from what they imagined a hamburger would taste like. To put the in perspective remember that most of these pushcart chefs of the 80s never tasted ham to begin with.There were no McDonalds, kfc or the Burgerroyalfamily or their coloured castles in India of the 80s.
Maybe it’s that backstory, but I still think that’s the best way to make a burger …. to make stuff up as you go as long as it works. Recently I ate a burger with a fermented mushroom patty and now I finally get it a burger is like curry, you can simply have an-anything burger like a anything curry if you can figure out how to build it. And that’s the catch,
“IF you can figure out how to build it and make it all come together”.
That part I discovered is hard and most burgers in most places kind of give up, but this post is not about those block burger loosers. (Ger: plattenbau-burgers rus: Chruschtschowka-burgers) please call failed burgers that at ur fancy restaurant.
These images are from 2 burger cafes with some of the best burgers I've had this year. One in close to Luxembourg called .trier and the other is called in Linden a little town about 10 minutes from Giessen.

I already know what my mom is thinking. Why is Ani eating so many burgers? to which all I have to say is – it's for research. McDonald's McAloo Tikki burger based on the bun tikkies of the 80s was their best-seller for more than 20 years. Those deconstructive pushcart wallas of the 80s and 90s really were on to something huh? Frank and rem would be proud.
Styling .zyla

28/10/2023

One of the joys I've discovered this year has been the comfort of eating out. Cooking at home or having a cook off with comrades has always been my go-to.
But this year ive been a pinball masquerading as a human and haven't really had the space or the time to cook since we have been on the move like we've never been before.
So I've decided to start posting images and names of some of the best places we have eaten at so they may be suggestions for you if you find yourself nearby.
I start with an Indian restaurant because I think I'm most critical of Indian food because I would rather eat at Saravanabavan and have diarrhoea than eat sweet vindaloo on Frankfurterstraße
Anyway, this one is from one of the nicest Indian restaurants I've eaten at around Frankfurt, in a beautiful cupcake-German town called Wetzlar, famous for leica lenses from back in the day. Its called Shiva and apparently, it’s a chain like Saravanabavan but for Germany/Austria, unfortunately, they don’t seem to have an Instagram page but I've marked their location.
Some posts back I read a namaste quote by Alona, that people usually forget what you said or what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." And this place made me feel like Onam sadya at some aunty's home (a good memory), probably helped by the fact that it was raining outside. Just what I need to come to terms with the coming winter.

14/10/2023

Namaste comrades ,
And behold our most recent photoshoot with Bass drop commissar .medes , raver of the Synth union, and techno tovarish in the Electronica Division, may he save us from bad remixes and the tyranny of TikTok tunes.
.de

09/10/2023

Nameste comrades, ever drive through some odd looking mountain scene, stop and go... What is that? WHY? HOW? This here is the alpine wall, or the mini Maginot and has some of the most interesting buildings in France, I didnt get a chance to explore most of it, not just because I didn't plan it but also because it't just hard to get around mountains and there aren't real roads to most of them.

I have no idea how they actually built so many forts on the Alps... (if it was in Africa I'm sure the history channel would say ancient aliens) ... but building artillery forts on impossible mountain tops did pay off.

In WW2 when the Italians attacked the French one of these little forts guarded by almost 7 soldiers (6 soldiers an NCO and a cat ) held back the Italian army. The forts were intact so successful that all of southern France was safe from damage from the war. This isn’t really a part of France i know too well but seems like it has a lot of interesting brutalist forts in wierd forms. It also has bunkers and barracks to make all my dreams come true. Staedel klass would approve im sure. .zyla just wants to hike in the mountains. Win win if you ask me.

02/10/2023

Nameste comrades,
For a country as beautiful as France🇫🇷 there sure are a disproportionate number of bridges named "devils bridge -Pont du Diable"
All these pictures were taken near or on a devils bridge.
I sure dont know what this deal with the devil or his bridges are tbh, or why the name is so popular in France. But if it was to make France pretty, i think it worked. Featuring the neighbourhoods of & and makkie .zyla from the

22/09/2023

Namaste comrades
I remember reading an article on Kerala by Canadian economist Jim Stanford. After the 2008 financial crisis, I often saw articles on India, China, or even the BRICS in foreign newspapers, but an article on Kerala, was a first. I guess he was young back then and had travelled around Kerala to report to his readers in Canada.
Kerala, especially when compared to other Indian states has a rather poor GDP, there are no large State corporations, MNCs, or employers like in Gujrat, Karnataka or in Tamil Nadu. I remember he called the productivity of some of Kerala’s factories “pre-industrial “and he isn’t wrong. I read a report on textile mills across the border in Tamil Nadu of comparable sizes producing 950% more products than its contemporaries in Kerala.
Companies, entrepreneurs and even the government lament the 100s of millions of dollars lost in productivity to strikes and hartals. I remember a particular year in the 90s when we had almost 200 days of holidays owing to strikes.
And yet despite poor productivity, constant strikes and low GDP, Kerala has one of the highest HDIs in the world. Homeownership stands at 90%, literacy at 94%, poverty at just over 0.5% and child mortality numbers are lower than in the USA. In fact, if Kerala were a country its HDI numbers would put it in the ‘developed nations' category ahead of countries with GDPs 1000s of times larger than that of Kerala.
The reason for this isn’t complicated, Kerala's economy runs as a fusing of socialism and capitalism called ‘flexible communism’.( that’s what Jim says I've never heard that before tbh) Most of Kerala's indigenous industries function through cooperative ownership. The constant strikes and hartals mean workers often get compensated fairly for their labor and if they don’t, they strike even more. Ownership means that workers aren’t risking workers safety for higher productivity. It also means they aren’t taking risks or running their factories as a corporate entity would.... contd....

27/04/2023

Namaste again comrades,
I know 2 days 2 posts; I promise you it’s really me!
This time from my favorite building in Germany. The Göltzschtalbrücke, now I know what most of you are thinking - WTF is that? Never heard of that toothpaste.
And it’s a pity because this little bridge just so happens to be the longest, most massive brick bridge in the world. It was even for a time the tallest(if ur a girl on Tinder swipe right now) railway bridge in the world. And it was built in the 1840s!!
So perfect spot to announce that .zyla , me, and our little studio “humbly named” epycstudio won 2nd place last year for the PJS at the University of Pforzheim Design PF for our P³ project a living building concept based on the root bridges of Meghalaya. It’s an ongoing research project where we are trying to develop our own kind of livable horticulture experimenting with materials, plants and seeds with historians, local experts and universities. I promise to tell you more when we make our first rupee/euro/dollar/bitcoin.
Back to the Göltzschtalbrücke, what the bridge represents is a kind of permanence, a kind of eco-conscious non-disposable architecture that still after 170+ years– functions. it’s not just this bridge, everything from the past certainly before 1920 seems to last. And the reason for that is RCC (reinforced concrete) concrete is the second most used material – after water! Today pretty much everything is built from this, it’s the zara/h&m to my Burberry toothpaste bridge. How can you solve the housing crisis without relying on fast-fashion buildings that collapse by the time our kids want to move in? maybe it’s rethinking how we use materials, maybe it’s developing new materials- I don’t yet have an answer and maybe it’s both, but luckily smarter people than me(but also us) are working on it throughout the world before it’s too late.

26/04/2023

Namaste comrades,
I know it’s been a good minute and I apologize for my prolonged absence but I promise, I’ve + We’ve been up to some good. And I’m excited to share it with you in the coming days. – This is not that story but rather notes from an ongoing self observation in nurture vs nature
While many of the people and places we have visited have been nothing but pleasant, ever so rarely we are faced with “situations”. While for those that involve geography, I have nothing to blame but my lack of commonsense and .zyla s enthusiasm in overlooking that, However when the crisis involves human aggression, we are blameless, especially when we are 10000km away and don’t speak the local language. I had faced some aggression before and it had always been verbal, easy to ignore and move on but how really can one stay true to one's commitment to non-violence especially when facing physical aggression or violence from others?

This whole encounter of us being attacked by a throng of little kids smoking ci******es, wielding slippers, a tricycle and tearing my clothes, as ridiculous as it may seem has taught me this-
Nonviolence is f*cking hard, its most certainly not passive acceptance of injustice or violence, but an active struggle against it and your base nature to respond with violence. So what happened beyond us being attacked …makkie made recordings, and I took pictures, we were perfect tourists - completely normal and somehow it didn’t escalate,
Apart from our torn clothes and shock, we were safe, but it could have easily ended differently, sure my ego would say I could have KOed some 6-year-old –but- wouldn’t that attract the attention and violence of his elders? spend a few days in a Mauritanian prison and take a rather long sandnap in the desert? Violence only begets more violence.
Kudos to makkie, while I dug deep for courage like I never did before and she made it look effortless.
These days when I read in the news, of how easily world leaders speak of going to war, nuking their neighbours or bombing capitals I wonder if they would have survived these little kids or if they would be sleeping in the sand.

16/03/2023

Nächste Woche Freitag 24.03.23 ist Release unseres Debütalbums. Längst überfällig allen die geholfen haben ausdrücklich Danke zu sagen. We love you all! 🥰🫶💐

Tausend Dank geht an:

Oliver Rüger vom Tonstudio Bieber für den tollen Sound und ausdauernde Geduld

Walter Dorn für die lyrisch-mystischen Flötenklänge bei „Winter Song“

Lucie Cerveny für die bestechende Background-Stimme bei „Lostlostlostlostlostlostlostlost“

Eroc Ehrig für das feine Mastering

Max Hay für das umwerfende Artwork

Dirk Raupach, Alexander Djelassi und Christian Ray Trampnau für die Veröffentlichung bei Tonzonen Records. Mit eurer Begeisterung und Leidenschaft bringt ihr Underground Bands und Musikliebhaber zusammen. Toll!

Oliver Alexander von 41065 Musikverlag/Edition Vinyl Kommune für präzise Administration

Arkandoz Photography für die exzellenten Bandfotos

Soulfood Music Distribution GmbH für reibungslosen Vertrieb

Merci, Merci, Merci!!

So, ist gut jetzt! Alle weitermachen!!! 😉😉🙃

05/12/2022

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10/11/2022

Nameste Tovarishes,
This is a rather long post, but the post warrants it, when you have a little time please listen to the wonderful audio essay by .zyla for .Link in the comments below
Growing up under the watchful eye of in a tiny town on the Malabar coast, I was quite detached from evil. Of course, I knew evil existed. I had read about it in books and saw 100s of movies like Star Wars or the lord of the rings where the good guys eventually won. But was it really like that?
I was always curious about evil and the places where evil was committed. A macabre tainted ground, a silent witness to the deaths of hundreds, thousands, millions or even 10s of millions of people. These images are from four of the evilest places I have visited, taken on 4 different continents and at different stages of my life.
The earliest of these, (as you could tell from the potato-camera image quality) were from Jallianwala Bagh, 2800 km from my home, my mom had warned me against going there, but now in hindsight, I was lucky it was the first of these places I visited.
The British had opened fire on unarmed men, women and children who had gathered for the festival of Baisakhi, slaughtering them.
Walking barefoot, I had a pamphlet from the ticket office with a quote from Gandhiji on its back –
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
Within a decade of India’s independence, the British Empire – the largest the world had ever seen, would collapse.
The next is AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, the infamous N**I Concentration and extermination camp. More than a million people were murdered here. Though predominantly used to kill Jews, the camps would also kill 10s of thousands of Poles, Roma, Siniti, Byelorussians, Russians, Ukrainians, Czechs, Yugoslavs, French, Germans, and Austrians. Such has always been the nature of evil, for evil is eternally hungry.

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