02 VEDANTA

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Author’s Statement

I travelled through India for six months in 2017, with little plan beyond the day ahead. I moved by train, bus and ferry, through stations, towns, cities and stretches of open country. Rooms had thin walls and mornings were loud. Moving continually meant being present and apart at once. The photographs were made from that position.

I photographed what held my attention: people gathering or passing, a figure within a landscape, light across concrete, cloth, skin and water. Sometimes I remained at the edge of a scene; at others, someone allowed me closer. Crowded images sit beside quieter ones, ceremony beside ordinary life.

The title, Vedanta, draws on the words veda, knowledge, and anta, end. Here it describes the limit of understanding: the point at which explanation falls away and experience remains.

Made on medium-format film and processed locally, the work records six months spent looking—brief encounters, changing distances, and the space between seeing a place and understanding it.

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March 2026