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Priya Kapoor

Priya Kapoor has contributed to Light & Composition since 2010. Her Reflections approach photography through the body rather than the mind — opening with something tasted, smelled, or touched before arriving at the image itself. Priya writes about memory as it lives in the hands and the throat, not the intellect. Her pieces have a physical texture that readers describe as something closer to sensation than to reading.

1,125 Published Reflections

Reflections by Priya Kapoor

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The Weight of Stillness Photo of the Day
July 20, 2018

The Weight of Stillness

The taste of cold, clean water on the back of my throat is a memory of a mountain spring I visited years ago. It was so sharp it felt like a silver needle, a sudden shock that made my skin prickle and my shoulders drop. There is a specific silence that comes with water—not the […]
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The Weight of Earth Photo of the Day
July 19, 2018

The Weight of Earth

There is a particular roughness to the skin of a dried seed that speaks of long silences underground. When I press my thumb against the ridges, I can almost feel the damp, cool dark of the soil it once called home. It is a dry, woody scent—something like toasted vanilla mixed with the smell of […]
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The Grit of Time Photo of the Day
July 16, 2018

The Grit of Time

The smell of sun-baked earth always brings me back to the summers of my childhood, when the ground was so dry it would crack into a map of tiny, jagged rivers beneath my bare feet. There is a specific, gritty texture to that kind of heat—a dry, powdery sensation that clings to your skin and […]
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The Texture of Time Photo of the Day
July 9, 2018

The Texture of Time

The smell of dried tea leaves is never just a scent; it is the smell of a long afternoon, brittle and earthy, clinging to the fibers of a wool sweater. I remember the feeling of my grandfather’s hands—the skin like crumpled parchment, mapped with veins that pulsed with a slow, steady rhythm. When he held […]
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The Crumb and the Quiet Photo of the Day
July 6, 2018

The Crumb and the Quiet

The memory of sugar always begins on the roof of my mouth, a slow, dissolving grit that turns into a thick, sweet paste. I remember the sound of a biscuit breaking—a sharp, dry snap that vibrates through the fingertips and settles into the marrow of the wrist. It is the sound of a quiet afternoon, […]
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The Hum of Dry Earth Photo of the Day
July 4, 2018

The Hum of Dry Earth

The smell of sun-baked mud always brings me back to the soles of my feet, stinging slightly from the grit of a path that refuses to be tamed. It is a dry, chalky scent—the smell of earth that has been waiting for rain for too long. When I close my eyes, I can feel the […]
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The Hum of Embers Photo of the Day
June 26, 2018

The Hum of Embers

The smell of burnt wick always pulls me back to the damp, heavy air of a monsoon evening. It is a sharp, metallic scent that clings to the back of the throat, like the taste of ozone just before the sky breaks open. I remember the feeling of paper against my fingertips—thin, fibrous, and slightly […]
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The Weight of Still Water Photo of the Day
June 15, 2018

The Weight of Still Water

The air tonight tastes of damp stone and cooling earth, a heavy, velvet thickness that settles against the back of my throat. I remember the feeling of walking barefoot on a terrace after the sun has retreated, the tiles still holding a ghost of the day’s heat, radiating upward into the soles of my feet. […]
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The Weight of Stillness Photo of the Day
June 14, 2018

The Weight of Stillness

The smell of sun-warmed linen always pulls me back to a porch I haven’t visited in decades. It is a dry, clean scent, like grass pressed between the pages of a heavy book. I remember the feeling of sitting perfectly still, my legs dangling off a wooden edge, the rough grain of the timber biting […]
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The Hum of Quiet Growth Photo of the Day
May 28, 2018

The Hum of Quiet Growth

The smell of damp earth after a long rain is a language the body speaks fluently. It is a heavy, metallic scent that clings to the back of the throat, tasting faintly of iron and ancient roots. When I walk through a forest, I feel the pulse of the ground beneath my soles—a slow, rhythmic […]
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The Salt of Stillness Photo of the Day
May 28, 2018

The Salt of Stillness

The air near the water always tastes of grit and ancient, drying salt. It clings to the back of the throat, a dry, mineral reminder that everything eventually returns to the earth. I remember the feeling of a metal railing under my palms—cold, rusted, and vibrating with the hum of a distant road. There is […]
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The Hum of Steel Photo of the Day
May 23, 2018

The Hum of Steel

The taste of iron always lingers on the back of my tongue when the air grows thin and sharp. It is the metallic tang of a city that never stops breathing, a cold, electric hum that vibrates through the soles of my feet. I remember standing in a space so vast it felt like the […]
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