TITLE: A piece of peace

Crowded long distance trains in India. Always crowded. And yet always throwing up highly individual moments of solitude.
Captured this visual when two trains had stopped next to each other for a fleeting moment. I was in one and my subject in the other train. I was awake and he was asleep. Photos like this make me think about the juxtaposition of the artist and the subject and how despite no relation they share that space inside a photograph together.
Konica IIIA - Ilford HP5 - negative scanned at a cheap local lab

AUTHOR: nilesh rajadhyaksha (India)

I am an architect and urban planner working closely with cities in India to support sustainable urban development. I am also an avid photographer who dabbles in both digital and analog photography. Of late I have been obsessed with analog processes of printmaking and hope to create innovative works through the process of darkroom printing.
I think of myself as a PICTOGRAPHER and Pictography (portmanteau of ‘picture’ and ‘cartography’) is my attempt to map the world around me through events, objects, peoples and stories as they present themselves to me as part of my very own and unique everyday. I am training my eye to seek out interesting moments where people use spaces and objects as props for manifesting their individualised narratives.