For twenty years I have chased the half-second before a person remembers they are being watched. The glance that isn’t for the camera. The laugh that arrives a beat too late. I came to this from design, where every line is deliberate, and I left it for the opposite reason, because the truest pictures are the ones nobody arranged.
A wedding is not a sequence of poses. It is a grandmother’s hand finding a grandchild’s, a father turning away so no one sees, a bride catching her own breath. I do not direct these things. I wait for them, and when they come, I am already there. This book is what waiting looks like.
“I don’t make people look at the camera. I wait until they forget it is there.”
On the honest moment
I spent my first years in design, learning that composition is a kind of listening. Photography taught me the rest, that the best frame is the one you don’t compose at all, only recognise in time to keep it.
For two decades I have photographed weddings and the people inside them, across India and wherever the families travel. I work quietly, close, and mostly unseen. What I hand back is not a performance of your day but a record of it, honest enough that you will still believe it in thirty years.