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From my
window seat
I love travelling by trains. Everything about trains excites me- the speed, the sounds, the captivating visuals, the food I get to taste and the people that I get to meet. All these things have amused me, all my life. Like most people, the window seat is my favourite place to be in a train, to sit and watch the world pass by. The drama, the beauty and the reality that I get to experience each time I am in a train, made me start my documentary photography project – “From my window seat”
I started this personal project in the year 2014 and I have been documenting my train journeys with photographs and videos since then. This is an ongoing, lifetime photography project.
With the persistent usage of mobile phones almost all the time during the train journeys, I have noticed that we humans are slowly loosing the simple, beautiful life experience of just looking out of train-windows; something that each person would have cherised as a child. I therefore feel this project has a lot of social importance, as I document the simple act of us humans - ‘looking out of train windows’.
The photos comprise of two segments - The visuals that I get see when I am in a window seat; and the images of others sitting on a window seat.
The visual drama that unfolds in the most unexpected moment is something that I wish to save forever. I feel extreme joy, each time I get to witness these fleeting visuals. And I am more delighted when I am able to capture those transient images.
