Always Be Playing.
PhotographyOne of my favourite shots, taken on a family trip to Rajasthan. I caught a group of local kids playing cricket on a sand dune just outside Jaipur. I love the composition, but mostly just how much fun they were having. No proper pitch or fancy gear. Just a few friends who wanted to play. I have it framed as a reminder to take life lightly and keep wanting to play.
Monochrome Cube.
FindsKonstantin Datz’s Braille Rubik’s Cube is one of my favourite finds. I keep this feed black and white. To me, it’s simply easier to take in. Here, touch replaces colour, yet the form itself needs no explanation. A classic puzzle rethought for people who can’t rely on sight to solve it. And somehow, it feels like a little physical version of this whole feed.
Neha.
PhotographyNeha putting on her nath as she got ready for our wedding in November. We kept it simple and close to home, with our closest friends and family. So many of them had flown in from around the world just to be with us. We felt pretty lucky to have everyone together. It was such a special time. This little moment takes me right back to one of the best days of my life.
The Life of a Matchstick.
FindsI loved how childhood flip books made a few pages feel like motion. I’d always wanted to explore that idea within just a single, still image. Then I found this match going from untouched wood to a pile of ash. The whole sequence is right there, without ever having to turn a page. A simple photograph that lets you see time passing, all in one glance.
Ice Plant.
ExperimentsI was playing with Midjourney v6.1, curious about light passing through ice. That experiment became Ice Plant. I liked it enough to try a whole series, with the plant slowly growing as the ice cube gradually melted beneath it. Two things changing, while trying to keep it looking like the same plant. It wasn’t fully consistent, but it was a fun way to see how far I could take it.
The Long Way Out.
PhotographyA wooden jetty outside our hotel in the Maldives, under sweeping clouds. We married in 2019. Then came COVID, pregnancy and our little daughter. This was our first holiday outside India since the wedding, and her first ever. That long jetty felt a bit like the path we'd taken to finally get here together. Such a simple trip, but it meant a lot to us. It made us want to travel more.
Perception.
FindsI spend my days building and evolving brands. This ad gets me every time. Jonathan Schupp and Serviceplan, for Hut Weber. A hat changes everything. Such a tiny visual shift, yet it completely changes how you read the image. That’s what I love about branding. A name, a visual or a campaign that gets someone to pause and think can stay with them. One of my all-time favourites.
Café Pelé Cup.
FindsI’ve always loved how this cup makes a handle out of its own rim. It feels like someone looked at an everyday object and asked what else it could do. Peel back a little of what’s already there, and you get something useful and beautiful without adding more. It’s a thought I often share with our team: before reaching for something new, look again at what you already have.
Nitara.
PhotographyNitara holding Neha’s finger, January 2023. Life went from fifth gear to second. You slow down, but start thinking further ahead. No book or video prepares you. You just jump in. We named her Nitara, meaning rooted. Growing up between the US and India, that really resonated with me. Neha is so rooted in our culture and traditions, it felt right for her too. Our first child, and a whole new way of life.
Shahjahan's Tear.
ExperimentsI was playing with Midjourney v6.1, curious about how diffusion models handle physics. Could it show the Taj Mahal upside down inside a drop of water? I wanted to see if it could get that little detail right. This generation managed it, and I loved how the composition came together. A fun way to test what the model could do beyond just making something look good.
OCD.
FindsI love design that does a lot with very little. Patrick Smith takes a grid of perfectly ordered squares and turns just one. That tiny shift is enough to pull your eye straight in and change how the whole image feels. The idea lands before you even get to the title. I find that kind of restraint so hard to get right. One small decision, and suddenly a simple grid has a voice.
All-in-One Card Stamp.
FindsOne stamp, pretty much every occasion. Ji Lee turns the greeting card into a checklist, and I love how quickly the idea clicks. Birthdays, anniversaries and condolences all sharing the same little card. There is something funny about seeing them together, but it is also a useful, beautifully simple object. That is what makes it work for me. The useful bit and the joke are one idea.
Fortified.
PhotographyI took this in Udaipur on our babymoon, just before the rain came in. Storm clouds were gathering over the palace walls, and the light brought out all the layers in the old stone. Taking away the colour and pushing the contrast made those textures feel even stronger. The clouds, the shadows, the age of the building. I love how much there is to look at within a single facade.
LV-ermin.
ExperimentsA meme of what a cockroach might look like in the Ambani household made me laugh. I wanted to try my own take while playing with Midjourney V7’s new Omni Reference. The idea was to test how much of an LV bag’s texture it could carry over onto a cockroach. It picked up the grain and the monogram surprisingly well. A fairly ridiculous little experiment, but I’m pretty happy with how it all turned out.
Pinocchio.
FindsI love how Olly Moss lets the idea escape its own frame. Pinocchio sits in one, while his nose carries on into the next. Two simple silhouettes become one little story, and the empty space between them becomes part of it too. It feels playful without needing much explanation. You recognise the face, follow the nose, and the whole thing clicks. Such a lovely way to use a wall.
The Redundant Clock.
FindsJi Lee replaces the numbers on a clock with little pictures of its own hands. I love that the answer is already there, repeated around the face, yet you still read it like a normal clock. It takes something so familiar that we barely look at it and gives us a reason to look again. A tiny change to the language of an everyday object. Completely unnecessary, and that is part of the fun.
Kabootar.
PhotographyAfter moving back to Delhi, I realised just how many pigeons there are, especially in South Delhi. Somehow, I’d never really noticed. I wanted to catch one at just the right moment in flight, when the wings and tail come together into this little shape. It took a few tries and a fair number of shots to get the frame I had in mind. With all that empty sky around it, I’m pretty happy with how this one finally came out.
Winter Walk.
ExperimentsWinter Walk is part of Mausam, a series named after the Hindi word for weather. I was playing with Midjourney’s Niji model to explore scenery and composition. This fictional scene is set in Gulmarg, Kashmir. I tried a few locations across India, some looking almost real, others drifting into fantasy. It was a fun experiment in how differently the model could imagine each place, and where it might take me.
Monochrome.
FindsTwo spray cans, each wearing some of the other’s paint. I love how something as simple as dripping paint can turn a pair of everyday objects into a whole composition. Black on white, white on black, with just enough mess to keep it from feeling too orderly. It fits so naturally into how I like to see this feed. A small reminder of how much can happen with just two tones to work with.
Ankle Bells.
PhotographyRajasthani folk dancers at a little carnival in Surajkund, just outside Delhi. I took this during a visit in February 2013. I like how the feet, the clothes and those long shadows tell the story without needing to show the whole scene. There is so much movement in the small details. The bells give the photo its name, but it is the rhythm of everything around them that stays with me.
Weighted Dice.
FindsSuzy Lelievre’s Weighted Dice made me smile when I came across them. All the dots have slipped to the bottom, as if gravity had finally caught up. It’s such a small change to something we all recognise without thinking. You get the joke straight away, then you find yourself looking a little longer. I love ideas like this. Familiar objects with just enough of a twist to surprise.
Loading...
ExperimentsI made this as a little visual experiment. A loading symbol in a black frame. We’re so used to seeing this on a screen that the waiting almost kicks in. Then you realise there’s nothing coming. This is already the finished piece. It takes a small piece of everyday digital life and makes it oddly physical. I liked the idea of framing that wait. A finished piece that never quite loads.
Row of rowboats.
PhotographyA boat repair yard near one of the ghats in Benares where my dad grew up. It was early in the morning, before the river filled up with boats.
Circular Fun.
PhotographyA little carnival in Surajkund, just outside New Delhi. I took this in February. I liked how the Ferris wheel looked against all of that open sky around it. Something busy on the ground becomes almost a drawing when you look up. The spokes, curves and repeated shapes. There’s quite a lot in a simple frame. A small reminder that you don’t always have to go far to find a good shot.
Good company.
PhotographyI took this in a village outside Panjim, Goa, while we were visiting friends. A winding path, open fields and a dog making its way through the frame. It’s a very simple scene, which is probably why I keep coming back to it. The path gives your eye somewhere to go. The dog gives it a reason to stay. Nothing particularly grand happening. Just a little company along the way.
Shark Spa.
PhotographyOur daughter loves dolphins, which is how we ended up at Atlantis in Dubai. I took this in one of the aquariums, with a shark drifting through the scene. There’s something strange about watching all that movement through glass. The fish, the shadows, the shapes below. It feels like its own little world. A family outing, and a moment I was glad to bring back as a photograph.
Fouettes.
ExperimentsI wanted to see how much movement I could fit into a single still image. A dancer, a white tutu and a dark stage. Not very much else to work with. The fun was in the blur, where one pose slowly starts slipping into the next. An AI experiment in long exposure, with a few moments in a single frame. I like that the dancer and the dance have almost become the same thing.
Delhi Summers.
ExperimentsDelhi summers can make an old fridge look like a perfectly reasonable place to sit. I made this with one of the older AI image models, really just for fun. A man, an old drinks fridge and a small shopfront. A very unlikely escape from the heat, taken a little too literally. I liked the ordinary setting around him and the absurdity of someone making himself completely at home inside it.
Pretension.
Finds“My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.” Mitch Hedberg. This still makes me laugh. A very ordinary thought taken somewhere absurd. I love how the joke follows its own strange logic all the way to the end. Put it on a wall in plain black letters, and there’s really nothing else to add. One of those things I saved years ago that still gets exactly the same reaction.
8.0 Concrete Chair.
FindsOmer Arbel’s 8.0 Concrete Chair feels almost like a sketch from the side. A few thin lines, a seat and a back. Your eye does the rest of the work. Concrete isn’t usually the material I associate with something this light. That’s what caught me here: a heavy material with such a spare silhouette. I like designs that make me look twice at something as familiar as a chair.
Paradox, Rendered.
ExperimentsAs image models improved, I started wondering how they might picture a mathematical paradox. I tried out the Banach-Tarski paradox as a prompt, curious to see what the model would put together from such an odd idea. This was the result. I liked how a question I couldn’t easily picture on my own could lead to something like this. That curiosity was the whole experiment.
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