You may call it food porn ,but most of the delicious street food , you get to see in the month of Ramzan ..the choicest rare appetizers , and looking at them you will want to eat ,forget the lack of civic sense and hygiene .
And I wonder why fussy photographers say there is nothing to shoot in Amchi Mumbai, .you have to cultivate nurture a penetrating eye and there is a lot to shoot in the back hick lanes of rustic Bandra .
I am not a teacher but I did try to instill all this in my two grand daughters Marziya and Nerjis ,,they can spot a picture faster than me and then nudge me whether to shoot it or not ,,
We shoot what comes our way and we thank God and the Muslim ethos as long as there are Muslims on this planet close at hand will be beggars ..Muslim beggars .. one cant do without the other .
I am not a Food blogger and I dont have the patience to entice enhance food photographically ,,I shoot without thinking of lighting Fucked Fstops or composition.. I just shoot ,,
I shoot less now earlier it was one thing shot from almost every inescapable angle this adds to versatility and being flexible I try to bring an entire crowd in my frame ,,
Bandra garbage if you shoot it artistically poetically the stink smell gives to an acquiescing comfort level.. garbage becomes poetry of life ,,things within the garbage jostle for attention perhaps you think I am crazy I had foreigner friends who would spend hours shooting garbage it gave them a Sufi like high sending them into a trance and numbing the olfactory senses ..
My grandchildren love shooting garbage ,, this could have been my photography thesis if I was good with words and more grammatically educated ..I am uneducated I read a lot of books and the writers I read voraciously influenced my photography too Charles Dickens Balzac George Gissing Maupassant Dostoevsky Zola to name a few ,,
That is why I try not to add text let the pictures tell their own story and garbage just needs eyes and nose you have your story.. shooting Garbage is like trying to unsolve Rubiks cube ,,
Well I digress food and garbage are interrelated in more ways than one , you take a thought fro one end and let it go through the other end I knew a friend who shot slum toilets .. he said the way a person shits tells a lot about his character ad Indians do really shit be art commerce or Politics ,,
I think I will end this for now I prefer writing poems short curt and trite ,, food for thought ,,
