Photographs for a city and the people in it.

Still work alongside the cinematography: convocation days in downtown Vancouver and at UBC, the city's public spaces, and documentary frames from Mumbai.

Vancouver, BCshaharbinart@gmail.com Cinematography

Convocation days

Vancouver · 2025

Events, portraits and families in one day's light: Library Square, the Queen Elizabeth Theatre plaza and the UBC gardens. Nothing staged beyond where to stand.

Graduate throwing her cap outside Vancouver Public Library, monochrome — **Cap toss.** Library Square. Monochrome

Plaza, noon. Queen Elizabeth Theatre plaza, downtown towers behind

Graduate carrying carnations down stone steps, his shadow thrown on the wall — **Carnations.** Hard light and a cast shadow on the steps

Graduate holding his degree, red stole against a dark gown, library columns behind — **Red stole.** Library Square

Graduate and her partner smiling at each other in open shade downtown — **Open shade.** Downtown Vancouver

Graduate holding her degree in a theatre foyer, monochrome — **Foyer.** Monochrome

Graduate kissing his partner's hair among pink rhododendrons at UBC — **Rhododendron season.** UBC

Public space

Vancouver

The city the way residents meet it: a residential street the morning after snow, and Granville Street from the pavement.

Tree-lined residential path under fresh snow — **After snowfall.** Residential street, one dark path

Granville Street towers converging overhead with the Vancouver Block clock tower — **Granville Street.** Scotia Tower and the Vancouver Block clock

Documentary and environmental portraiture

Mumbai · 2016 to 2022

Working people in their own places, at close range and in available light. The habits carry straight into civic work: get close, stay honest, keep the colour true.

Vegetable vendor in an orange turban at his stall, surrounded by greens — **Meditate.** Vegetable vendor, available light

A hand buried in marigold garlands in a basket — **Colourful week.** Marigold trade

Frontal monochrome portrait of a woman in a patterned headscarf — **Portrait of a traveller.** Monochrome

Flower seller reaching up for a garland above baskets of yellow flowers — **Rejoice.** Flower market

Shop owner glancing sideways beside a wall of clocks, monochrome — **Time please.** Watch shop. Monochrome

A hand scattering rose petals over heaps of petals — **Monochrome red.** Rose petals

Man on a ladder working on a street lantern against a painted wall, toned monochrome — **The apprentice.** Dressing the lantern

Dhammapal Kirdak smiling beside his prints at a street market, monochrome — **Dhammapal Kirdak.** Print seller, environmental portrait

How these were made

Available light where the place allows it, one light where it does not. Edited in Adobe Lightroom Classic and Photoshop, colour managed from capture to export so a set holds together across print, web and social.

Consent and records

The Vancouver sessions were commissioned by the graduates and their families. The Mumbai frames were made openly, at close range, with the subject's knowledge. Every file carries date, place and subject in its metadata and the archive is catalogued in Lightroom.

Delivery

Same-day selects for social, full edits within the week, exported to each platform's size and format, with alt text written for every image that goes to the web.

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