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 1056 to 1060.

1056. “The difficult thing about music writing, in the end, is not to describe a sound but to describe a human being”—Alex Ross

1057. The Sweet Dependency of the Prayer

1058. Of Course, All the Poets, Including Emily Dickinson, Lock Their Doors This Way

1059. The 7 Ages of Man

1060. The Happy Age of the Cubicles