When I enter a space where I need to capture something evocative, I begin by merging with that space like a fish in water. I forget myself. If I am in a jungle, I blend with the well-being and comfort that it bestows.🌿
THE PROCESS IS SIMPLE: I empty myself, I lose myself, freeing myself from my sense of the self. Photography, therefore, is not documentary for me, but about gaining clarity on what the need is and creating solutions in the form of exciting experiences in a space away from the fixed self, so that i am sensitive to coincidences, flashes of inspiration, and serendipities—not in a blank and nihilistic manner but with openness and receptivity.
The camera records 🎥. But if the camera is not there, the mind is in a state of perpetual communion, taking mind snapshots with or without the lens. This is the ‘second-sight’ of photography —developed after decades of strategically oriented, aesthetically-built visuals 🖼️.
Hence, it raises the question: Am I, as the individuated self, taking the picture, or is the picture taking itself? 🤔📷
Decades ago, I propounded this practice during a lecture at the famous NGMA be, with examples to prove the process in a detailed methodology. 🧾.
With humility 🤍, I believe this process of forgetting oneself is what helped me stay commercially viable even after 50 years of grinding assignments across multiple genres 🎭.
As the visuals show, I continue my heavenly encounters here on Earth 🌌🌿.
