Mysore Train Passenger Behind Window Bars Black and White Photography
Hands and Window Bars Around a Partly Hidden Face
A hand curled around the upper window bar first gives me a way into this photograph. Below it, another hand rests against a lower bar while the passenger’s face remains largely hidden. I made the image beside a train in Mysore, India, close enough for those small gestures to fill the frame. It was a brief encounter, photographed as it unfolded. I did not arrange a pose or direct the passenger, and the photograph leaves the reason for the covered face open.
The carriage supplies a strong structure around the figure. Pale horizontal bars cross the dark opening, and a broad strip of metal on the right separates this window from the next. I kept that division in the composition because its scale changes the way the hands and face appear. The white shirt brings light into the lower half, with folds and a buttoned cuff remaining visible beneath the bars. Hair, fingers and the grain of the image have softer edges against the bright metal.
Black and white lets me follow those differences without colour drawing attention elsewhere. From farther away, the window reads as a pattern of light lines and dark spaces; closer in, the hands become the centre of the photograph. I find that shift compelling. There is very little of the station or the train’s wider setting here, yet the carriage and its passenger remain closely connected. What I wanted to keep was the visible moment itself, with its strong geometry and the small part of a person that the window reveals.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2010
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