Unplanned, random and spontaneous capture of a fleeting moment of the mundane, everyday going-ons of strangers in a public place, is the essence of street photography. It’s all about connecting with the world around you in its rawest and purest form.
When one takes to the streets, there are a hundred stories getting woven around you, mostly insignificant ones which we ignore or disregard on a day to day basis. You use your imagination to tell those stories through the image you capture of the unmediated chance encounters and random incidents. The feeling can be quite rewarding when a candid shot at a poignant moment turns into an interesting narrative by careful framing and timing.
My inherent nature of observation helps me to filter the happenings around me and bring back the moments that stand out. I fill up the frame with ample hints, feelings, ideas, stories or questions and leave room enough for the viewers to get inside and discover what’s lying beneath the surface of such captures. I cannot but agree more with the words of Eve Arnold, “it’s the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is”.
