Your most current project is film related – shooting movie sets, actors, extras and the vacant sets when everyone has left. How did this come about?
I had worked with Ralph Fiennes in his role as an ambassador for UNICEF. When I heard he was making his directorial debut film Coriolanus, based on the Shakespearean play, I asked him if I could come on set to make a series of photographs. A film set is a very interesting place in as much as that everything we see on the screen is produced. Every tiny detail is planned. Instead of simply shooting the production of the film, I decided to create a series of landscapes of the film sets. Kind of like a role reversal, where the sets become the actors. The actors are not prominent, they are either blurred or static in the frame. My interest is the location and the paraphernalia of a filmset to demystify the process – I want the viewer to see a tableaux of the scenes rather than the silver screen.

Kalpesh Lathigra shoots regularly for The New Yorker, The New York TImes Magazine, Time, Newsweek and The Independent Magazine. He is based in London and New York.