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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 Hum Beneath the Skin Photo of the Day
December 16, 2016

The Hum Beneath the Skin

The air in the tunnels always tastes of ozone and old, damp pennies. It is a metallic grit that settles on the back of the tongue, a reminder of friction and steel grinding against steel. I remember the feeling of standing on a platform, the vibration traveling up through the soles of my shoes, humming […]
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The Weight of Autumn Photo of the Day
December 5, 2016

The Weight of Autumn

The first chill of the season always settles in the marrow of my bones before it ever touches my skin. It is a sharp, metallic bite in the air that demands a different kind of comfort. I remember the steam rising from a heavy ceramic bowl, the way the heat would bloom against my palms, […]
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The Weight of Sweetness Photo of the Day
December 5, 2016

The Weight of Sweetness

The smell of brown sugar melting into butter is a ghost that lives in the back of my throat. It is a thick, golden scent that clings to the kitchen curtains and settles into the fibers of my sweater, long after the oven has gone cold. I remember the specific grit of sugar against my […]
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The Weight of Sweetness Photo of the Day
December 2, 2016

The Weight of Sweetness

There is a specific resistance when a fork meets a sponge cake—a soft, yielding sigh of flour and butter that vibrates through the fingertips. I remember the smell of vanilla bean scraped into batter, a scent so thick it felt like velvet against the back of my throat. It is a kitchen smell, one that […]
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The Weight of Sweetness Photo of the Day
November 27, 2016

The Weight of Sweetness

The smell of flour always reminds me of the kitchen floor in my childhood home—cool, smooth tiles against bare soles, and the fine, chalky dust that would settle on my skin like a second, paler layer. There is a specific resistance to a sponge cake, a gentle, yielding springiness that pushes back against the fork, […]
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The Flour on My Palms Photo of the Day
November 26, 2016

The Flour on My Palms

The kitchen was always thick with the smell of scorched flour and the sharp, metallic tang of cold water hitting a hot pan. I remember the way the dough felt against my knuckles—cool, elastic, and yielding, like a secret being pressed into shape. There is a specific rhythm to the work, a repetitive folding that […]
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The Weight of Dust Photo of the Day
November 24, 2016

The Weight of Dust

The taste of grit is the first thing to arrive—a dry, metallic coating on the back of the throat that speaks of pulverized stone and ancient, broken mortar. It is a flavor that settles deep in the lungs, a reminder that everything solid eventually returns to powder. I remember the feeling of concrete against my […]
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The Hum of Grey Photo of the Day
November 21, 2016

The Hum of Grey

The smell of wet pavement always brings me back to the wool coat I wore as a child, heavy and damp against my shoulders. There is a specific, metallic chill that clings to the skin when the sky turns the color of a bruised plum, a cold that settles deep into the marrow. I remember […]
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The Salt of Laughter Photo of the Day
November 20, 2016

The Salt of Laughter

The taste of a humid afternoon in the tropics is always the same: a faint, metallic tang of dust settling on the tongue, mixed with the sweet, overripe scent of crushed jasmine petals. I remember running until my lungs burned, the soles of my feet stinging against the rough, sun-baked earth. There is a specific […]
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The Salt of Stillness Photo of the Day
November 14, 2016

The Salt of Stillness

The air before a storm tastes of copper and wet stone, a metallic tang that settles at the back of the throat. It is a heavy, expectant silence that makes the skin prickle, as if the atmosphere itself is waiting for a secret to be whispered. I remember sitting on a porch as a child, […]
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The Salt of Shared Breath Photo of the Day
November 13, 2016

The Salt of Shared Breath

The air in a crowded room always tastes of iron and damp wool, a thick, humid blanket that clings to the back of the throat. I remember the feeling of being pressed against others in the heat of a summer afternoon, where the boundary between my skin and the next person’s became blurred by sweat […]
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The Weight of Softness Photo of the Day
November 11, 2016

The Weight of Softness

The smell of damp wool always brings me back to the winters of my childhood, when my mother would pull a thick, scratchy sweater over my head. It was a heavy, suffocating embrace that smelled of rain and cedar chests. I remember the static prickle against my cheeks, the way the fabric felt like a […]
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