INDIA | Saturday, 29 June 2013 | Views [187] | Comments [1]
This picture reminds me of my childhood. Through the broken window what is seen
Coming from a rural middle class Indian family, I am not supposed to remain unemployed by the age of 25, and I am here to turn 30 this year. Moreover, being a poet is totally unacceptable if you are addicted of thinking always beyond money. But how can I be so unfaithful to the poet of me, because of who I am whatever I am? And I am a person who has drawn all his good inspirations from places like hell…..call it brothels, morgues, prisons, slums – or everything that claims this world is not worth living. In the last five years, I have seen myself falling for things I had always imagined detestable before. Being a poet, I believe, photography is actually a visual form of poetry. I see a great similarity between holding a pen at one moment and a camera at another. But this similarity is not the reason why I love photography. It is just the thing called TIME. Nothing is repetitive in this universe in terms of time. I consider a good photograph as a bridge between past and future. The farther I go in future, the more it makes me believe that things are not momentary. Thus, I see photography as something that challenges the power of time and because of this contrast I find it lovable, respectable and preservable. Though I always wish to visit new places, I find myself not much interested in places of tourist interests, but deeply mad to see a place that seems not to be a part of our known world. But unlike traveller, I prefer to be called a wanderer – a man in motion for no obvious reason. And the very first place I would like to go with my photography is my distant past….even farther back in time, if possible, a time when I was not yet born….I like the uncertainty of life, as it gives me the immense hope; it also prepares me for a restart in otherwise situations. So, as far as the matter of “why I should be chosen” is concerned, I just have to say that this is a question worthy of consideration only after 26th of July 2013. Till then, I have to think how to turn those 10 days into 10 years….and I am sure, being with Jason it’s not going to be impossible!
savirohi Jun 29, 2013 1:09 AM
