Humans & Humor: Reader's Digest

Krishna, our photographer finds familiar faces in the cracks and fissures of the city.

Humanising the city, is her way of living and coping with her adopted place of work.

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March 2025

We see a petite profile: a samurai complete with hair in a top knot, armed and waiting watchfully. Camera bag, sheathed lights, sound gear and tripod are her weapons of choice. Stepping out, there is but a moment to witness her transform into a guerrilla camouflaged in the city. That is a photographer’s talent, when they are but a part of the background.

Krishna, a visual story teller, effortlessly transitions mediums. From illustration, to photography to videography. The common link is the story, always capturing emotions and the real people, real moments. She has the freedom to traverse various story telling devices.

She generates a profusion of micro video photographs, stop motion animations, short time-lapse clips for Freedom Tree, the design brand where she works. These are but the tools of the trade. The collective mind are her colleagues, and her eye, which cannot be packed in any camera bag!

Humanising the city

WKrishna has made Mumbai her workplace home. Living alone, while firmly rooted in Kerala traditions, she brings all the good living practices to her daily discipline. Her tiffin box is most often filled with her own handmade food. Wild rice, salads, lightly cooked vegetables or treats.

She makes friends with this forbidding city, by venturing out and finding the fissures and cracks that are a part of a hard worked urban environment. Broken plaster, scuffed woodwork, peeling paintwork that reveals lives lived before. With a child-like wonder, Krishna finds friendly faces in these markings.

With deft illustration or simple animation she humanises the city. Brutal defects and ugly but necessary industrial clutter is made cartoonish and approachable. This is her encouragement to others: see the city for the hidden potential and the multitude of connections you will make. Humanising the city

Make time for a pause.

WOn weekends Krishna starts early. “As a new person in the city, I volunteer for events, a small way to give back to the community.” She has made friends who are also outsiders to Mumbai. Together, they explore events around endearing causes, nature tours, and off beat tourist destinations.

But what she sees is different from others. She urges, “Do you ever just stop and really look? Like, really look?” 👀 Not everything has to be perfect to be worth noticing. The world isn’t spotless, and that’s the best part. The beauty is in the broken lines, the rough edges, the little accidents that turn into art.

That crack on the wall, the scribble on a table, the random smudge on a window - kind of looks like a face, right? Maybe even a whole story. We all see the world differently. So slow down, take a second… what do you see?” Make time for a pause.

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