Documentray Photographer Neha Chadha is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this documentary photography. From the project ‘In her presence’. To see Neha’s body of work, click on any photograph.
Photographing my daughter feels like a return—to another time, another gaze.
My late father always photographed us this way, and perhaps this practice is my way of continuing a conversation with him.
On long car rides, I find myself telling her the same stories he told me: to look gently, kindly and with empathy, always to show life without imposing upon it.
These photographs are not narratives so much as traces—poetic mental notes gathered in passing.
I have long been guided by a line quoted by Robert Adams, from the poet X. J. Kennedy:
Would you lay well?
“The goose that laid the golden egg
Died looking up it’s crotch
To find out how the sphincter worked
Would you lay well? Don’t watch “
It reminds me that wonder withers under scrutiny, that joy reveals itself only when left alone.
So I step back.
I allow moments to arrive unannounced.
For once, I learn to surrender.
These images hold the quiet joy of witnessing—of being a mother, a confidante, and, at times, a muse—and of letting love, memory, and seeing move freely through the frame.
All images and text © Neha Chadha
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