People: Street (AMATEUR) - HONORABLE MENTION
Paris in transit
Photo © Siddhartha Mukherjee
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“The only journey is the one within”, Rilke famously said. In our modern quest of `doing’ rather than `being’, movement has become sovereign, while stillness exists in fringes. So directed is our thought outward, a moment of inner reflection is hard to come by, save except for those that have stillness thrust upon them. Public transportation affords such a gift, where the external journey becomes a passive undertaking, and people invariably surrender to the confines of their minds. A mere glance around in a bus or a train is bound to bring your eyes upon a countenance pensive or deeply brooding, oft with an expression lingering between joy and sadness in a moment of detached contemplation. Shot in various Paris metro stations and trains [2015], this series tries to capture Parisians in transit, not merely through a web of underground railway tracks, but through the denser and more exacting web of our human thoughts. It is a collective of candid expressions, where my approach for this series was part street and part documentary, with an aim that individual photographs work to tell a story by themselves, while finding their place in the overarching narrative. What I have tried to bring out is the more poignant aspect to our lives, which being a journey, is rooted in transience.
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“The only journey is the one within”, Rilke famously said. In our modern quest of `doing’ rather than `being’, movement has become sovereign, while stillness exists in fringes. So directed is our thought outward, a moment of inner reflection is hard to come by, save except for those that have stillness thrust upon them. Public transportation affords such a gift, where the external journey becomes a passive undertaking, and people invariably surrender to the confines of their minds. A mere glance around in a bus or a train is bound to bring your eyes upon a countenance pensive or deeply brooding, oft with an expression lingering between joy and sadness in a moment of detached contemplation. Shot in various Paris metro stations and trains [2015], this series tries to capture Parisians in transit, not merely through a web of underground railway tracks, but through the denser and more exacting web of our human thoughts. It is a collective of candid expressions, where my approach for this series was part street and part documentary, with an aim that individual photographs work to tell a story by themselves, while finding their place in the overarching narrative. What I have tried to bring out is the more poignant aspect to our lives, which being a journey, is rooted in transience.
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