A friend once pointed out to me, that we both had very different ways of artistic expression.While he always tries to hide the obvious and in the process add more mystery and depth to the photograph, mine are more curious in expression and try to unveil the mystery and the thought behind the subject.

To be true, I admit, I am a little bit like that in real life as well. Curiouser and Curiouser!

“Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).

Maybe that's why I love doing portraits so much. People fascinate me. The thrill of being able to capture a fleeting thought or an expression in a face is incomparable. Somehow, its so raw and simple and true.

Its the truth which I go after.



I caught this man standing at the intersection of busy road in Ranchi,India. My brother had gone to buy some vegetables and I had been fiddling with the camera. What was interesting to me was the expression in this man's face.He looked miles away..deep into his own world, unaware of his surroundings or the loud honks or the people bustling about around him. He looked neither sad nor happy. He just was.