Aditya Anupkumar

“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”

- Walker Evans

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Artist's Statement

Photographs have always fascinated me. Maybe it is something morbid about how they stop time, how they have the power to hold a moment in stasis forever; long after the events and people have passed. Or maybe it is my desire to tell a story - the story - with complete control, as I see it, as I saw it... Or maybe it is simply about sharing an experience with those who couldn't be there, who might never have a chance to see what I see.

The truth, like most things, I guess lies somewhere in between those three explanations. I make photographs to share where I have been, what I have seen; to move those experiences from the collective human experience, to the collective human consciousness -- to make images stand as records of life, transcending time and place.

If one might make a claim so grand, I would like to think that I make photographs, most of all, to move people -- to connect with people across borders, across ideologies, across worlds, and it is my hope that my photographs reflect that, if not as fact, then at least the underlying motivation.

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