Category: Opinions

I blinked my eyes on 1 January 2015, and I was transported straight to the end of November 2015… or at least that’s what it felt like. Time, as a concept, is fleeting, yet we do not really acknowledge this fact. Most of us simply trudge on, without stopping for a second to think. Thankfully,… Continue reading Another Year, Another Moment of Reflection

In 1958, Ernest Hemingway admitted to The Paris Review that the final words of A Farewell to Arms was rewritten 39 times before he was satisfied. Marcel Duchamp’s The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Even (otherwise known as The Large Glass) took him eight years until he decided that he didn’t want to work… Continue reading Is a Photograph Ever Finished?

In a most basic sense, the pursuit of anything involves body and mind. The greater or deeper the pursuit, the faster and easier do the revelations occur, and the more trained, agile and adept the mind and body becomes. Medical practitioners, psychiatrists, thinkers, philosophers, artists, sportspeople, professionals of any sort… In fact, all of them… Continue reading What’s in a Pursuit?

My friends know that I love reading books more than anything else. I have the capacity to read at a fantastic speed, yet, I haven’t been able to read a single word since the last two months. Writers call it writer’s block, so I suppose readers can call it reader’s block. However, the thing about… Continue reading Finding Peace in Nothing

There’s a fine line that separates a collector from a hoarder. Both are as willfully passionate about the items they collect, but where a collector is stringent about the items he acquires and compulsively organises them in a methodical manner, a hoarder loses his capacity to do so. Synonymous to the term pack rat, a… Continue reading When Compulsion Spurs Creativity…

There are some observations through the past year, through a miasmic haze of screen-time, sleep, wakefulness, and losing oneself to photography. That the things that we most neglect are often most important. That many such, are brought back into our attention from the peripheries of our gaze, with shocking randomness. That these things are really… Continue reading More Food For More Thought… Vol. II

I enjoy extremely high resolutions because I dream of making giant prints. For my photography, the obvious and mundane take on proportions larger than life. And like other photographers, I lust after gear. But whatever I buy needs to be perfect for what I intend to achieve… which is possibly why I have not invested… Continue reading On Why Wide Angle Lenses Fascinate Me

Paeans have been sung about the ease with which cellphones allow one to shoot, and also on their unobtrusiveness. But the real simplicity of cellphones, I believe, lies in the whole package. I’m not just talking about the weight, or the stripped down settings, but the whole gamut—right from shooting, selecting the right image, postprocessing,… Continue reading With Great Simplicity Comes Great Responsibility