walking in deer park

An important preoccupation bringing ecology and city life into focus as part of her practice are Saba’s walks in neighboring Deer Park and Hauz Khas. She has built a large body of photographs tracing these walks from 2007 to 2014 and created a soundscape of her route, which was aired on Osso Radio, Portugal in 2013 as part of an international public project mapping 25 cities. She has mirrored these walks around Lake Geneva, Jardins des Plantes, Kyoto’s Zen Gardens and New York’s Central Park and is setting out on more. Nature may be predictable but it has a complex design. I have been here through different times of the day, seen the lake in shadow and sunlight, over seasons; Yet it has also revealed, like my children’s turbulent teenage years, those unexpected, quicksilver moments, which I have tried to capture before the wind turned direction and the light suddenly fell. These photographs are from the last few years when walking and photography have been feeding each other in an agreeable symbiotic alliance.