Manjari Sharma Blog

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You know you are a photographer when your fear of not making a picture is greater than your fear of making a picture.

Greg Miller (via gregmiller)

9 Mar 2016 / 58 notes
Thanks @instagram for adding my image to your weekly highlights. The image of the flying sari above is by yours truly. It’s a new project I’m working on and you can see more images from this series by following me on Instagram - my handle is @manjee and the project’s hash is as follows : #howtowearasari #lookmaimoninstagram !

14 Feb 2016 / 956 notes
On the corner of my street is Peewee’s Playhouse, where people have been generationally coming for haircuts and shaves. Apart from being the cornerstone of my block, it has become a place of undeniable interest for me. Conversations unfold, I meet real people … people of Bed-Stuy, people who are Bed-Stuy, who have been here long before this gentrified boom. I know one thing I’ll keep going back, until Peewee can’t stand it anymore.

23 Oct 2015 / 2 notes
Air is everywhere

I have lost three friends in the last few months ….all gone too soon.. 35, 40 and 48. Dealing with ill parents and the loss of loved ones is a part of growing up; a chapter in everyone’s book as they say. It’s weird though that when you plunge in to the perfect water or feel a baby’s pillow soft skin, the joy you unlock from that moment is so complete in itself. We are so bound by each other, so dependent, so fragile. Our little bodies just break apart, melt and vaporize. Solid turns to liquid turns to air. Maybe that’s why we feel a relief like no other when a breeze wraps around us unexpectedly. May be what a breeze really is, is our gone-too-soon friends coming back to give us a hug, just one more time.

13 Aug 2015 / 3 notes
I have waited this whole summer (maybe my whole life) to have my studio practice in a space of my own, a place with a large white wall, lots of glass, a place where work in progress can live, where I can read, muse, stare, edit. It gives me so much joy to share this photo of my backyard studio shed with you all. I am beyond happy to call this construction complete and move in ready!
- #backyard
- #studio
- #werk
3 Aug 2015 / 11 notes