Zameen Aasman Ka Farq —As distant as Earth and Sky— by Marc Ohrem-Leclef
Zameen Aasman Ka Farq —As distant as Earth and Sky— by Marc Ohrem-Leclef
Zameen Aasman Ka Farq —As distant as Earth and Sky— by Marc Ohrem-Leclef
Zameen Aasman Ka Farq —As distant as Earth and Sky— by Marc Ohrem-Leclef
Zameen Aasman Ka Farq —As distant as Earth and Sky— by Marc Ohrem-Leclef
Zameen Aasman Ka Farq —As distant as Earth and Sky— by Marc Ohrem-Leclef
Zameen Aasman Ka Farq —As distant as Earth and Sky— by Marc Ohrem-Leclef
Zameen Aasman Ka Farq —As distant as Earth and Sky— by Marc Ohrem-Leclef

Title:

Zameen Aasman Ka Farq —As distant as Earth and Sky— by Marc Ohrem-Leclef

Artist:

Marc Ohrem-Leclef
Year: 2027
Format: 300 pages, 17 × 24 cm, hardcover with offset and screen printing, two single-page fold-outs
Language: English, Assamese, Bengali, Chhattisgarhi, Hindi, Gond, Gujarati, Kannada, Khasi, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Marwari, Nepali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu
Design: Book Book Studio
ISBN: 978-3-907690-50-5
Price: CHF 58.00

Zameen Aasman Ka Farq begins with a deceptively simple observation: in India, men holding hands, interlocking pinkies, or leaning intimately into one another is called "friendship." Marc Ohrem-Leclef's image-text work moves through this opening to explore the many dimensions of bonding, touch, and love among Indian men — from the openly affectionate to the unspoken, from metropolitan queer identities to fluid lives in rural spaces that require no labels at all.
For almost a decade, he has traveled with translators across 23 Indian states, recording over 250 conversations in 19 languages and making analog medium-format portraits, to produce an archive that maps a deeply human desire for connection. Yielding to his collaborators' voices, the work renders the spaces they carve out for themselves — irrespective of category or label — with candor, intimacy, and trust.