CineStill 800T Umakant Jani CineStill 800T Umakant Jani

In another light, in another moment

“In another light,” he said
We might have stayed.”

She almost whispered,
“In another moment,
we might have lived.”

SoHo, Cinestill 800T

“In another light,” he said
We might have stayed.”

She almost whispered,
“In another moment,
we might have lived.”

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Ilford SFX 200 Umakant Jani Ilford SFX 200 Umakant Jani

Like a memory

She walked out of the sirens and into shadow-a doctor, a refugee, a silhouette in silver halide.

Between shifts, she haunts SoHo like a memory-cool, unreadable, and impossibly alive.

Tatiana, SoHo, Ilford SFX 200, 35mm Film

She walked out of the sirens
and into shadow—
a doctor, a refugee, a
silhouette in silver halide

Between shifts, she haunts
SoHo like a memory—
cool, unreadable, and
impossibility alive.

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Kodak Potra 400 Umakant Jani Kodak Potra 400 Umakant Jani

Somewhere in these eyes, i am on your side

It will take a while
To make you smile
Somewhere in these eyes
I'm on your side

Street, 5th Avenue near Parsons School of Design, Kodak Potra 400, 120 Film

It will take a while
To make you smile
Somewhere in these eyes
I'm on your side

You wide-eyed girls
You get it right

— Space Song, Beach House

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Kodak Potra 400 Umakant Jani Kodak Potra 400 Umakant Jani

Reverence

for the unnamed woman on 6th and Bleecker

She stood still
in a city made of motion —
not posing,
just existing
like silence between the shadow and the aperture

For the unnamed woman on 6th and Bleecker, June 1, 2025

She didn’t look away.

In a city that trains us to avert our eyes — from pain, from truth, from each other — she met the lens with an unflinching softness. This wasn’t about defiance. This was about recognition. The frame became less about capturing and more about being captured — by a moment, by a stranger’s humanity, by the invisible thread between aperture and the soul.

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