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“Sometimes a photograph is not about stone at all. It is about the way light breathes life into stone.”
Inside the Lad Khan Temple at Aihole, generally dated to around the 5th century CE, the pillars and pierced stone windows come together in a quiet celebration of early temple architecture. What makes these windows even more remarkable is that the grills were carved from single blocks of stone, a beautiful reminder of the skill and imagination of the craftsmen who shaped this monument.
For this photograph, I wanted to use only the natural light entering through the grilled windows. I composed the frame to include two of these windows along with the pillars, so that the eye could move through the geometry of the space while also feeling the softness of the light. For me, this image is entirely about light, how it falls, how it reveals, and how it transforms an ancient interior into something almost timeless.
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