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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 Skin Photo of the Day
October 26, 2010

The Salt on the Skin

The air by the water always tastes of salt and damp wool. It is a thick, heavy taste that clings to the back of the throat, reminding me of childhood summers where the sand felt like coarse sugar between my toes. I remember the feeling of a rubber string snapping against my wrist—that sudden, sharp […]
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The Sharp Edge of Air Photo of the Day
October 24, 2010

The Sharp Edge of Air

The smell of frozen pine needles always brings me back to the feeling of a sudden, sharp intake of breath. It is a cold that bites at the edges of your nostrils, a dry, stinging sensation that makes your lungs feel like they are expanding against a wall of ice. I remember the sound of […]
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The Hum of Morning Mist Photo of the Day
October 23, 2010

The Hum of Morning Mist

The air at dawn has a specific texture, like damp wool pressed against the skin. It carries the scent of wet earth and the metallic tang of cold water waking up. I remember the feeling of bare feet on slick, dew-heavy grass—the way the cold travels up the ankles, grounding the body before the sun […]
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The Weight of Enough Photo of the Day
October 20, 2010

The Weight of Enough

The smell of damp earth after a long rain is a heavy, velvet thing that clings to the back of the throat. It is the scent of survival, of roots drinking deep and soil turning soft underfoot. I remember the feeling of cold, slick mud between my toes—the way it squeezed upward, unbidden and grounding. […]
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The Silence of Cold Breath Photo of the Day
October 19, 2010

The Silence of Cold Breath

The air in winter has a specific texture, like fine, crushed glass against the skin. It is a sharp, clean sting that wakes the lungs before it settles into the marrow. I remember walking through a forest after a heavy snowfall, where the silence was so thick it felt like velvet pressed against my eardrums. […]
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Salt on the Skin Photo of the Day
October 17, 2010

Salt on the Skin

The air at the edge of the world always tastes of salt and cooling stone. I remember the feeling of sand between my toes, not as a memory of a place, but as a gritty, shifting friction that grounds the spirit when the day begins to fray. There is a specific hum that rises from […]
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The Hum of Amber Photo of the Day
October 12, 2010

The Hum of Amber

The smell of old beeswax always pulls me back to the wooden banister of my childhood home. It was a scent that clung to the palms, thick and golden, like the residue of a summer that refused to end. If I press my thumb against my skin now, I can almost feel that same resistance—a […]
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The Ash of Devotion Photo of the Day
October 11, 2010

The Ash of Devotion

The air in a temple has a weight that clings to the back of your throat, a thick, sweet heaviness of sandalwood and burnt cedar. It is a dry, powdery scent that settles into the creases of your skin, a ghost of a thousand prayers rising in thin, grey ribbons. I remember the way my […]
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The Salt of Collective Breath Photo of the Day
October 10, 2010

The Salt of Collective Breath

The air in a crowd has a specific weight, a metallic tang that settles on the back of the tongue like copper coins. It is the smell of damp wool and exhaled urgency, the friction of thousands of shoulders brushing against one another in a rhythm that is not quite a walk and not quite […]
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The Rhythm of Sudden Wetness Photo of the Day
October 9, 2010

The Rhythm of Sudden Wetness

The smell of hot pavement meeting cold water is a scent that pulls the breath right out of my lungs. It is sharp, metallic, and heavy with the dust of a thousand footsteps finally being washed away. I remember running through a storm like that once, the fabric of my clothes turning into a second, […]
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The Hum of Emerald Photo of the Day
October 8, 2010

The Hum of Emerald

The smell of damp earth after a sudden monsoon downpour is a heavy, velvet thing. It clings to the back of the throat, tasting of minerals and ancient, waking roots. I remember pressing my palms against the rough, cooling bark of a jackfruit tree, feeling the vibration of a thousand hidden lives beneath the surface. […]
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The Pulse Beneath the Rush Photo of the Day
October 7, 2010

The Pulse Beneath the Rush

The smell of damp stone and grain dust always pulls me back to the center of a crowd. It is a specific, heavy scent—the kind that clings to your coat long after you have walked away. I remember the feeling of standing perfectly still while the world around me turned into a blur of motion, […]
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