The visible city.

[By Mayank Austen Soofi]

Delhi is a voyeur’s paradise and The Delhi Walla also makes pictures.

I take photos of people, streets, flowers, eateries, drawing rooms, tombs, landscapes, buses, colleges, Sufi shrines, trees, animals, autos, libraries, birds, courtyards, kitchens and old buildings. My archive of more than 1,00,000 photos showcases Delhi’s ongoing evolution. Five randomly picked pictures from this collection are regularly put up on the pages of this website.

The series is named in the memory of French artist Eugène Atget (1857-1927), who, in the words of a biographer, was an “obsessed photographer determined to document every corner of Paris before it disappeared under the assault of modern improvements.”

Here are Delhi photos numbered 1081 to 1085.

1081. Unless the God Looks on Sylvia in the Day, There is No Day for Him to Look Upon

1082. Can a Mirror Show the Very Essence of Our Face?

1083. ‪Dearest, the People of This Pathetic City Think This is a Valley‬

1084. The Solitude of Sufism… at the Dargah of Delhi’s Hazrat Chirag Dehli

1085. ‪I Know, Dearest, We Failed to Accomplish Anything This Year… But That’s What Years Are For‬