I love capturing love in a family – those tender, moving gestures that are shown within such a structure. I was at Blossoms Book Store, Bangalore with my wife a while back, going through a book about how lives were lived and energies spent in the last century in Britain. I delight in such documentation, and enjoy working on such projects myself. It would take quite some time to get through them though, as the captures have to happen across years and decades. Subjects could be individuals, families and kids growing up.

In that book, there’s a photograph of a solider returning home after serving in the army on some battlefield somewhere. His family is not aware of his journey. He just shows up at the gate at the edge of their front yard. Imagine the kind of emotions his sweetheart, kids and other members of the family would feel upon seeing him, just like that – out of the blue, having returned safe and sound from the ravages of war and for good? The photograph shows the solider and his wife kissing, with their 2 kids hovering around their legs. It was such a heartwarming image.