Aneej Nair

Things I looked at twice.

I don't photograph everything I see.
Only the things I don't want to forget.

I tend to notice: people waiting, unfinished things, strange light, quiet corners, everyday rituals.

I don't crop the world to make it fit the screen.

Notes

Things I couldn't fit into a caption.

Why I look.

I've always been drawn to the things people usually walk past.

A person waiting alone. A half-open shop. Someone fixing something. The light entering a room for exactly five minutes. A conversation I can't hear.

Photography became my way of keeping those moments.

I'm not particularly interested in making ordinary things look extraordinary. I'm more interested in noticing that ordinary things were never ordinary to begin with.

— Aneej Nair, Ahmedabad