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“ Once I reached Mumbai and the internship started , I didn ’ t have any free time or opportunities to do photography . When I eventually took up a job , I was still too busy , but then one day I was asked to click a few pictures of my friend for her portfolio and , from the moment I took the camera in my hands , I realized that something huge had been missing in my life . A part of me that had been absent all along suddenly awoke . In search of market value and corporate success , I had caged myself — my inspiration and everything that made me who I am — so I started setting it free .”
“ I dedicated more and more of my time to photography and , once I realized that portrait and portfolio photography was not enough to fit all the concepts and ideas I wanted to put across , fine art photography became the next logical and natural step . It ’ s been two years for me as a photographer in India , six years in total , and it still feels like every shoot is a brand new experience .”
“ Photography , to me , is my personal meditation , a way to connect with the world both inside and outside of me , and to identify the systems and cycles that these worlds function within . My work is both intensely personal and loudly public . I take the major social constructs and issues and internalize them to reflect my deepest engagement in each . A metaphorical representation of subjects allows me to show the overlooked connections between present and past , dreaming , and waking , logic and intuition where I draw the mystical , but evident parallels between emotional reality and the physical world .”
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