The Infinite Pulse

I have long been fascinated by India and its richly complex layers of history, culture and spirituality; its deeply compelling pulse. I explored Kolkata's streets on foot in December 2019 – a physical, visceral, temporal immersion. It felt like a real city of the future; a burgeoning, increasingly sophisticated city grappling with complex challenges, but with a strong sense of its identity and distinctly unique place in the world. I found it strangely and uniquely compelling, with its own distinct spiritual rhythm; a deep, living, vibrant intellectual, commercial and cultural presence. In my photographs for this series, I was striving to capture, through individual moments, a sense of the intensity of the multitude of pivot points, of complexity, opportunity and promise, of the dynamic tension between past, present and future, between space and compression, deeply embedded order and ritual and emerging individual agency. I wanted to capture the sense of being suspended, as an outsider, in an unfolding, absurd and fleeting drama.