HeyJaredShivam Photofarm
Stories, reflections, and lessons shaped by the people and places I photograph.
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Shoot Before the World Changes (opens the original)
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We were in Mumbai to shoot a few locations for my YouTube channel, and Mumbai’s Chor Bazaar was the first stop on the list. We picked the worst possible day for it, flat grey skies, rain on and off for hours, and the light completely dead. We had already been stuck in the hotel for more than two days because of the rain, so eventually we decided that waiting for better weather wasn’t an option anymore. We had to go out and shoot anyway.On the way there, in the back of the cab, I’d been reading a
The Photograph Was Always Right There (opens the original)
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Raghu Rai has been one of my biggest inspirations for as long as I’ve been taking photography seriously, but it’s only recently that I’ve started going deeper into his work, currently making my way through one of his books, sitting with it slowly instead of rushing through. Somewhere in there I got stuck on a line of his, the kind that lodges itself in you and quietly rearranges how you see: “Politicians and industrialists come and go, but the man on the street never vanishes.” He said it about
Perception and Perspective in Photography (opens the original)
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There's a line I read once in a book on street photography, something a photographer once said to a younger student who was learning to work the streets: "Don't ever judge that man, that older man with the limp or the gait, because you are he. You will be he. You are of him, as he is of you."I read it years ago, and it has stayed with me ever since, because it said something I’ve circled around for a long time without ever landing on the words myself.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"
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