I began photographing the streets of Bombay and Calcutta in the early 1970s, camera in hand and no agenda beyond the joy of seeing. The city was my studio, its people my unwitting collaborators. I was drawn to moments that unfolded spontaneously — gestures, glances, small dramas in public space — all part of a larger human rhythm.

 

For a few years in my twenties, photography was how I connected to the world. Then life moved on, and the negatives were put away. Decades later, I returned to them — and found that the images still spoke, still breathed.

 

This website is a living archive of that early work. It coincides with the release of my book The Joy of Seeing and my first solo exhibition in over forty years. Together, they mark a return — not just to photography, but to a way of looking at the world that has never really left me.