Smaer Saggar

Slideshoweveryday is a storytelling-driven archive project exploring how culture, creativity, and memory collide. It began with a simple impulse, to document visual references that moved me, but quickly grew into a platform that dissects the meaning behind trends, subcultures, and overlooked creative histories. I create long-form Instagram carousels that feel like editorial essays in disguise tracing the roots of diasporic style, under-the-radar artists, forgotten design movements, and culturally rich collaborations. What sets Slideshoweveryday apart is our commitment to context. he project is deeply influenced by the Archive Instagram movement (like Samutaro and Hidden.NY), but Slideshoweveryday is rooted in an Indian lens, localising global stories while spotlighting voices from the margins. Long-term, the goal is to evolve slideshoweveryday into a full-fledged cultural studio, a tastemaker brand that interprets, archives, and co-creates future-defining culture.

Kash

On a sweltering summer day, Kudrat, 30s, witnesses a young girl become the subject of a stranger’s unsettling attention during a crowded bus ride. The film Babygals (bbg) confronts a violence that often begins quietly through small, calculated acts disguised as kindness. I was compelled to tell this story because grooming, and the way it thrives in public, remains largely invisible. It hides behind politeness, age, and male authority. By placing this narrative in a bus, a space of shared silence, unspoken rules, and everyday negotiations, I wanted to amplify the claustrophobia of being watched, followed, judged, and targeted. Kudrat’s reaction is a reflection of the relentless fear women carry with them, even after the bus has stopped. It is the lingering cost of confrontation in a world where the danger does not end with the ride. It follows you.

In Sanctum

Soil - 4' Dia Block print on cotton paper In Soil, we are born and grown From dust to life Within this earth he resides Among us, beside us, in us it hides, Guiding our journey, showing the way night and day, Guardian of the earth, keeper of the lore, Whispers of wisdom, from shore to shore, From ground to sky, the cycle complete, In unity, our destinies meet