My photographs engage with the languages of cinema and narrative. A sense of nostalgia is a consistent thread across disparate subject matter, which includes architecture, figures, and landscape. My practice involves an open-ended approach to making photographs and is not connected with a singular subject.  

The unseen and the glazed-over are important modes. In addition, my work isolates mundane moments of everyday life, bringing them into focus. I am interested in calling attention to the way in which we take for granted the scenes we see every day when we walk out the door into the world. My work engages with the need to take off our blinders and open our eyes to the beauty surrounding us.  

When composing photographs, I think about the importance of passing time, including. the moments we see and the moments we miss. Every flash the camera produces signals another second passing. I constantly look at and study the movement occurring around me. My medium allows me immediately to produce a lot of work at a fast pace.  

Some themes I have been trying to exhibit in my work are instability, uncertainty, and discomfort. I hope viewers can question the subject they are looking at, and in so doing, their own curiosity is expanded beyond the subject matter of the photograph.

-Anika B. Naimpally