Curated by Nasrin Modak Siddiqi, Jane Borges and Christalle Fernandes

Ever dreamed of holding the sun in your hands? What about the moon? Photographer Mitesh Patil’s creative series of photos hark back to our childhood daydreams of playing around with the heavenly bodies as though they were balls. The travel photographer teases light to create optical illusions of holding the setting sun or rising moon in your hand. While we cannot yet carry moonbeams home in a jar, creative photography does help obtain a sense of the fantastic. We liked the ‘moon proposal’ where Patil captured a person gifting a bright silver moon to their beloved. Asking for the moon, is not too much now.
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