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Shaping A Photograph With Colour

Delineating between what is and what ought to be

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Gajan Balan
Mar 29, 2026
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Photography is rarely about what’s actually there. It’s about what we want to remember, and nowhere is that tension more apparent than in the edit. So many of us spend our lives chasing the perfect light, but the real wizardry happens when we decide to stop documenting reality and start directing it. In this piece, I’m pulling back the curtain on my tho…

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