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Vineet Vohra29The Art of Indian Street Photography

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Vineet Vohra

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Shaven-headed men gather during a Hindu ritual, one prominent in the foreground with others raising their arms, in a color photograph by Vineet Vohra.

Indian street photographer and Leica Ambassador Vineet Vohra shares a wide-ranging conversation on vision, responsibility, and what it means to stay a student of photography. Trained in fine arts, Vohra approaches the street as a sculptor: subtracting, refining, and waiting for form, rhythm, and human presence to align.

He challenges romantic ideas of the “decisive moment,” reframing it as a conscious choice shaped by position, awareness, and what the photographer decides to reveal or conceal. The discussion moves through invisibility on the street, ethics over legality, editing as an unfinished process, and the dangers of perfection driven by social media.

For Vohra, street photography is not a genre but a way of seeing.

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