Humayun Tomb- Photo walk Series

 Humayun's Tomb

"The eye should learn to listen before it looks."

 - Robert Frank.

As we embarked on our photowalk adventure outfitted with our cameras, we separated into groups, each with a certain purpose- to capture shots based on certain elements—perspectives, patterns, monochromes, and shadows. The purpose of this exercise was to explore our capabilities and limitations as photographers, to see how well we could fit the themes in our snaps, and so we set out to explore the hidden beauty that lay before us.

Mononchromes are photographs which comprise of a specific colour in their entirety- the name evokes typical black and white photography, but it can be so much more than that. The beauty of monochromes lies in their simplicity- with colour stripped away, our focus shifts to forms, textures, and light.

Shadow photography is the discovery of beauty in the interplay between light and darkness. Shadows dance and reveal secrets, adding an air of mystery to our frames. Objects filter lighty and cast shadows to produce mesmerizing dreamscapes. Beauty really does come from the most unthinkable of places, don’t you think?

Pattern photography is the act of understanding shapes and designs through a camera, to find beauty in the most mundane of things, just because their mathematical proportions and nature appeal to our aesthetic senses, getting the closest to the ancients as we can get, who found their deities in the most elemental of patterns, who built symmetric structures as a tribute to their God.

And finally we come to perspectives, perhaps the theme with the most creative freedom, and also the most frustrating. Perspective photography is where we get to show our uniqueness. We take photos from what is quite literally, our perspective, and display through our photos how we see the world.