Q. Why did you pick this theme for your first photography exhibition?
A. I had visited the Patan stepwell a year ago while I was in Ahmedabad. It was an experience that lingered on for a long time, even after I had returned to Mumbai. This made me feel that I should share this wonderful experience with people It was only about a couple of months ago, when I looked back at my folder of the photographs of Patan, that I decided on an impulse to showcase an exhibition of photographs. I felt my photographs have sufficiently captured that experience of encountering something so beautiful. My work essentially deals with the experience of being a 'rasik'— the experience of being enlightened as a spectator.

The UNESCO World Heritage Site at Rani ki Vav, Patan. Pics courtesy/ Hemangi Kadu