What stands behind, not what stood in front of the camera, forms the essence of aham. Not the subject that was photographed. The feeling carried into the frame and left there, displaced into the periphery, translated into what the lens could hold.
Each series builds upon a single feeling, expressed through different frames. Not documented — interpreted. What appears in the frame is not just the interplay of light and shadow. It is the feeling that has no language, but finds the sign that can carry it. The post-production does not refine — it uncovers. Something buried under the surface. The gap between what can be expressed and what insists on being felt does not close — it opens onto the person looking.
The photograph — the moment — is a fragment that dies as it is made. What survives is not the moment but its residue — what the unconscious made of it before the conscious mind could intervene. Something slips past the censor every time. Dream-logic doesn't announce itself. It appears in the corner of the frame, in the shadow that shouldn't be there, in what the hand chose without the mind deciding. Making the image is the revolt — not against the death, but inside it. What you cannot name in these photographs is not a failure of the work. It is the work.
essence
waiting
2022
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We are all waiting for the big things in life, be it the dream career, the ideal partner, or just a break, while we go about our lives in shared spaces of the everyday. Between the starting point and the destination lies the truth of who we are. We exist in a perpetual state of becoming, suspended between what we are at present and what we romanticise about being. It is in the sterile light of airport terminals and the rhythmic pulse of traffic signals where this abstract yearning takes physical form, where physical pauses become portraits of the subconscious.
writing on the wall
2022
digital
photographic
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wheels of time
2022
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Thirty years ago, the wheel was set in motion by a fundamental shift. While the dismantling of the state-controlled economy in favour of global free market was taking place, another structure was being dismantled in favour of a fairy tale. The shift in the economic structure created a superstructure of the 'Global Indian’, an identity built on mimicry and the promise of a borderless future. However, as the gears of time turned, the friction of economic inequality and the erosion of local anchors produced a psychological whiplash. Today, the superstructure has mutated into hyper-nationalism: a desperate attempt to reclaim a 'pure' postcolonial identity as a shield against the perceived coldness of the global market. We are witnessing the posthuman irony - where the very technology and markets that were supposed to unite us have provided the tools for a more rigid, tribal, and inward-looking definition of who we are.