One of the first cameras I remember holding was a Zenit. My father had bought this camera in the erstwhile Soviet Union while he was posted there during the late 70’s. I think it was a Zenit-E, which was inspired by the Zorki range of rangefinders which itself was a copy of the Leica II. As a family we eventually moved from the Zenit to simple point and shoot (almost disposable) cameras including a Minolta, Yashika and the ever popular Hotshot. Fast forward to my first job when I first saw and used a digital camera. It was a Sony. Took 32 pictures on an inbuilt hard disk. Wow.

The next 10 years or so was documented with really grainy digital cameras and eventually camera phones. My first actual tryst with a decent-ish camera was back in 2007. This was an entry level DSLR and I loved it. I got into the whole “ooh. Need more lenses” games. It was fun for a few months and maybe 2-3 vacation trips but then work took over. That camera ended up being used for product photography and well.. that’s the last thing I actually used it for. Over the years, my trusted iPhone was my camera of choice. I loved taking pictures with it everywhere I went. It was simple. Point. Click. Back in pocket. 

And then, I stumbled on Vineet and Rohit Vohra’s work. I had bought myself an entry level Leica a few months earlier and thought I was the cats whiskers, walking around in Bangalore, New York, Singapore, Seoul and even Guangzhou of all places, taking what I thought / felt was street photography. I look back at those pictures and let’s just say they’re in a folder and not on this website for a reason. I’ve spent a lot of time across the country with both Vineet and Rohit over the past 4 years and I’ve learnt so much from them. They’ve also become such great friends, but that’s another story.

In the past 18 months, in the middle of the two Covid lockdowns, I shot a lot in my own city and also in Benaras. I feel I have slowly found the kind of photography that brings me joy and am on this path to finding my voice or as one would put it, my visual language. I have realised that shooting on the streets brings me immense joy. The light, the people, the unexpected moments, all of it is exhilarating. This website is a result of me documenting this realisation. I live in Bangalore, India.