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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 on the Wind Photo of the Day
March 7, 2012

The Salt on the Wind

The smell of damp earth after a long drought always brings me back to the riverbank of my childhood. It is a thick, humid scent, heavy with the promise of rain and the metallic tang of wet silt. I remember the way the mud felt between my toes—cool, yielding, and slightly gritty, like a secret […]
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The Salt on the Skin Photo of the Day
March 3, 2012

The Salt on the Skin

The air at night has a different weight, thick with the damp salt of the ocean and the cooling grit of sand beneath bare arches. I remember the feeling of a ball hitting the instep—that sharp, stinging thud that travels up the shin and settles in the marrow. It is a language of friction. The […]
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The Roughness of Belonging Photo of the Day
March 3, 2012

The Roughness of Belonging

The smell of damp earth and thick, coarse hair always brings me back to the feeling of a heavy palm resting against my shoulder. It is a dry, sandpaper heat—the kind that settles into your skin after a long day under a relentless sun. There is a specific rhythm to being near something massive, a […]
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The Hum of the Earth Photo of the Day
March 1, 2012

The Hum of the Earth

The smell of damp pine needles always brings me back to the feeling of wet wool against my skin. It is a heavy, grounding scent, like the earth exhaling after a long fever. When I close my eyes, I can still feel the vibration of a passing storm deep in the soles of my feet, […]
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The Rhythm of Iron and Earth Photo of the Day
February 29, 2012

The Rhythm of Iron and Earth

The smell of wet iron always pulls me back to the feeling of travel. It is a sharp, metallic scent that clings to the back of the throat, mixed with the damp, heavy perfume of crushed grass and cooling earth. I remember the vibration of a floor beneath my feet—a rhythmic, shuddering pulse that travels […]
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The Grit of the High Country Photo of the Day
February 26, 2012

The Grit of the High Country

The smell of damp wool and crushed dry grass clings to my skin long after the wind has died down. It is a sharp, metallic scent, the kind that settles in the back of your throat when you have been breathing thin, cold air for hours. I remember the feeling of leather reins against my […]
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The Weight of Still Water Photo of the Day
February 25, 2012

The Weight of Still Water

The smell of rain on hot stone always brings me back to the edge of a pool I visited years ago. It was the kind of silence that hums against your eardrums, a thick, velvet quiet that feels heavy enough to touch. I remember dipping my toes into water so still it felt like glass, […]
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The Salt on the Wind Photo of the Day
February 25, 2012

The Salt on the Wind

The air in Vancouver has a specific weight, a damp, cool velvet that clings to the skin like a half-forgotten secret. It tastes of brine and cedar, a sharp, clean sting that wakes the lungs. I remember standing on a shoreline much like this one, where the sand was cold enough to ache against my […]
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The Hum Beneath the Skin Photo of the Day
February 23, 2012

The Hum Beneath the Skin

The air before a storm has a specific metallic tang, a sharpness that prickles the back of the throat. I remember standing in an open field as a child, the grass damp and cool against my ankles, waiting for a sound that wasn’t yet there. It starts as a vibration in the soles of your […]
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The Salt on the Skin Photo of the Day
February 22, 2012

The Salt on the Skin

The air near the water always tastes of iron and wet stone. It is a thick, humid weight that clings to the back of the throat, carrying the sharp, briny sting of a tide that has been churning for centuries. I remember the feeling of sand between my toes—not the soft, powdery kind, but the […]
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The Bruise of the Sky Photo of the Day
February 18, 2012

The Bruise of the Sky

The air before a storm tastes like wet copper and ozone, a metallic tang that settles at the back of the throat. It is a heavy, static-charged pressure that makes the fine hairs on my arms stand up, as if the atmosphere itself is reaching out to touch me. I remember the feeling of standing […]
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The Breath of the Earth Photo of the Day
February 16, 2012

The Breath of the Earth

The air before a storm has a metallic tang, like copper coins pressed against the tongue. It is a heavy, humid weight that settles into the pores of your skin, making the fine hairs on your arms stand upright as if they are listening for a sound that hasn’t arrived yet. I remember standing in […]
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