This was shot in 2005 and I had a lot of them on Yahoo pictures that finally got shifted to Flickr in June 2007 ..
In those early days everybody in the Bandra Bazar market wanted me to shoot them and I willingly did and in those early days I gave away free 4/6 copies too as a token of love from my camera .
And I spotted it while scrolling my Flickr Camera Roll I thought I would metamorphose it as a BW but I let it be .let him be seen in color I have not seen him these several years too.
I shot a lot of people I have lost track, today a Bohra guy accosted me and requested me to give him a copy of his Dad s picture I had shot many years back.. I said I will. but the trouble is I have never gone to a digital studio for copies or enlargements ..I post my stuff on Flickr and move on ,, than after many years I do a voice over on my pictures I began talking more than the subject who stares at me clueless .. I bet he himself does not know why I shot him... but he is there on my timeline my own Comedie Humaine ,, a la Balzac,,my own Eugène de Rastignac lol.
I was once totally into Balzac Dickens Maupassant and Dostoevsky ,, I just could not read modern writers .. and once I began my tryst with photography I gave up reading completely now I read body language and shoot and than try to read the evolved picture of my imagination.
And I need a picture to fill in words as prose or as poetry .. as I am more a visual man than a writer or a poet ,,I have no formal training as a writer or as a poet not even as a photographer .. I just shoot Fuck F stops and will definitely not manipulate the simplicity of my picture , I dont need verbosity of light or shade , I just try to capture the inner glint that is direct from my soul to the subjects soul.
Of late I hardly shoot pictures I try to bring forward old images from my archive and give it a re birth as a new image or a new thought .
About the fishnet on his face , it is used for onions and potatoes , and he was trying it out on his face when I walked up and shot him.. 10 years back.. and so much has changed I shot this on Nikon D80 .even my camera has changed I will never buy a Nikon ..it is just Canon.. the guy I shot has disappeared .. I have changed too , no more fanatically possessed by the camera ghost that lives in all cameras as disembodied Vision..
I am happy shooting with my mobile phone ,, I dont know if I will ever upgrade my camera .. If I do it will take a long time .
And a picture helps you bring your inner thoughts out in the open in the fish market of Life online .
I dont write with a pen never always the one solitary godfucked finger doing what my fucked mind tells it to do tapping away on the keyboard of my laptop..
And all this is known as blogging .. I shoot a picture blog it ... I dont merely display it like others ,,, and I dont make copies or prints ,,
So I still wonder why do we shoot pictures ,, because we have a camera .. but metaphysically I could still be shooting pictures without a camera ,,
I leave it to my friend Alex to answer this one I love his take on my pictures ,, lol.
