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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 Salt of the Current Photo of the Day
October 29, 2014

The Salt of the Current

The smell of wet wood always brings me back to the riverbank, to the way the air feels heavy and thick, like a damp wool blanket pressed against the skin. There is a specific grit that settles on your palms when you touch the side of a boat that has spent its life in the […]
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The Salt on the Tongue Photo of the Day
October 28, 2014

The Salt on the Tongue

The air at three in the morning has a specific, metallic bite, like licking a cold iron gate in the middle of winter. It tastes of dry earth and ancient, evaporated tides. My skin remembers the feeling of standing in a place where the wind has forgotten how to be gentle, where the silence is […]
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The Weight of Stillness Photo of the Day
October 24, 2014

The Weight of Stillness

The smell of damp earth after a sudden downpour always pulls me back to the feeling of being small. It is a heavy, grounding scent that settles deep in the lungs, reminding me of afternoons spent sitting on a porch, waiting for the world to decide what happens next. There is a specific texture to […]
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The Salt on the Wind Photo of the Day
October 19, 2014

The Salt on the Wind

The air at dusk has a specific weight, a damp coolness that clings to the skin like a damp linen sheet. I remember the smell of the harbor—a sharp, metallic tang of cooling asphalt mixed with the brine of a restless sea. It is a scent that settles deep in the lungs, grounding the body […]
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The Rough Tongue of Love Photo of the Day
October 18, 2014

The Rough Tongue of Love

There is a specific grit to the underside of a cat’s tongue, a sandpaper rasp that feels like a secret being whispered against the skin. I remember the weight of a small, warm body pressing into my lap, the rhythmic vibration of a purr that seemed to rattle my own ribs until my breathing matched […]
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The Weight of Feathers Photo of the Day
October 12, 2014

The Weight of Feathers

There is a specific grit to the air when the wind kicks up dust—a dry, chalky taste that settles at the back of the throat, reminding me of afternoons spent running until my lungs burned. I remember the frantic, soft thrum of wings against my palms, the way feathers feel like velvet stretched over hollow […]
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The Grit of History Photo of the Day
October 10, 2014

The Grit of History

The smell of sun-baked sandstone is a dry, chalky scent that clings to the back of the throat, like the dust of a thousand years settling on a tongue. I remember running my palms over walls that felt like sandpaper, the heat of the stone pulsing back into my skin, a slow, steady heartbeat of […]
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The Weight of Still Water Photo of the Day
October 9, 2014

The Weight of Still Water

The smell of wet river stones always brings me back to the feeling of cold mud between my toes. It is a sharp, metallic scent, like iron filings mixed with crushed mint. When I was small, I would stand at the edge of the creek until my ankles went numb, watching the surface tension hold […]
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The Weight of Paper Photo of the Day
October 6, 2014

The Weight of Paper

The smell of old paper is the smell of time slowing down. It is a dry, vanilla-sweet scent that clings to the fingertips, a tactile reminder that words were once pressed into existence by a living hand. I remember the rough grain of a fountain pen nib catching on a page, the slight resistance of […]
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The Hum of Stone Photo of the Day
October 5, 2014

The Hum of Stone

The air before a storm has a specific weight, a metallic tang that settles on the back of the tongue like a copper coin. It is a heavy, expectant silence that makes the skin prickle, as if the atmosphere itself is holding its breath, waiting for the first drop of rain to break the tension. […]
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The Ember on the Tongue Photo of the Day
October 2, 2014

The Ember on the Tongue

The smell of woodsmoke always clings to the back of my throat, a dry, metallic ghost of a fire that has long since surrendered to the dark. It is the scent of endings—the way a bonfire tastes when the wind shifts, carrying the grit of burnt cedar and the sharp, stinging heat of cooling ash. […]
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The Quiet Courage of the Field Photo of the Day
September 29, 2014

The Quiet Courage of the Field

There is poetry in the physical weight of labor. The muscle memory of peeling jute, the steady cadence of harvesting rice, the careful arrangement of sheaves to dry under the sun—these are traditions that connect modern Bengal to centuries of ancestors who walked these same muddy paths. To look upon this work is to feel […]
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