My Top 10 of 2019
“Which of my photographs is my favourite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”
From most trips you come home with souvenirs. The best trips are the ones from which you come home with memories and stories that last you a lifetime. Whether I’m going on a trip around the world or just around the corner, I’m constantly exploring, constantly keeping my eyes open and my index finger primed so I can come back home with a picture that tells a story.
I don’t usually do a top 10, or indeed a top anything, when it comes to my photography, but I thought I’d give it a go this time. For a number of reasons. As 2019 marched on, I began to sense a change in me, the photographer. It might have been gradual, or it might have been precipitated by particular events, it might have been an outcome of workshops I attended, or videos and podcasts I watched and listened to, but it was tangible. I found that I had begun to care less about what other people thought of my photographs and more about what I wanted to convey through my images, what I thought and felt at the time I saw the scene in front of me. I found myself less willing to let the viewer dictate what I should take a picture of (and how), but more interested in telling him why I found the scene compelling. I have written more about this here and here. There is also a story behind each of these images that I’ve talked about in other posts in this blog, so I won’t repeat myself.
So, without further ado, and in no particular order, here are my ten favourite photographs from 2019. I hope they’ll speak to you as they did to me.
HAMPI, INDIA, JANUARY 2019
HAMPI, INDIA, JANUARY 2019
LADAKH, INDIA, JULY 2019
DALLAS, TX, USA, NOVEMBER 2019
LADAKH, INDIA, JULY 2019
PONDICHERRY, INDIA, OCTOBER 2019
TRANQUEBAR, INDIA, OCTOBER 2019
PONDICHERRY, INDIA, OCTOBER 2019
LADAKH, INDIA, JULY 2019
HYDERABAD, INDIA, DECEMBER 2019
