An admiration for the Artisanal was inevitable. However, what moved my practice from Maker (trained Accessories designer and Jewelry maker) to Documentarian, is a curiosity for the creative process and creative life.

What moves a Maker to create? To continue creating? To commit years, sometimes a lifetime, to their chosen craft? What does their daily life look like?

Makers of Beauty takes this curiosity further into conversations with Artists, Artisans & Makers , while giving you a peek into these lives, committed to creativity, skill, and in their own ways, to creating their genre of beauty.

See below photo essays of Makers from Antwerp, Mehta’s current base.