Street Photography in Mumbai

Mumbai as a city has everything to give to everyone. Be it job, place, sustainability or delight to the traveler and a smile to photographers. This city, a group of seven islands once, has evolved a lot since it has started developing as a city and a place of cultures to come and thrive. It is the largest city in the world’s second largest country. And if we count on money, , it’s the wealthiest city in India, but with some of its most extreme poverty. Mumbai is also India’s most diverse, cosmopolitan and westernized city. I will not delve into the history of Mumbai rather will take you to the places where a photographer and a traveler find solace.

With the diverse history, Mumbai has century old buildings, bazaars, fishing villages. Mumbai also has the biggest slums of Asia and one can find the expensive homes of Bollywood stars also. In brief, Mumbai has everything a photographer and traveler is possibly looking for.

When we say Mumbai, it’s not the places which are in Mumbai only; by the time it has stretched its boundaries to the nearby places as well. These places too are Mumbai these days, you cannot think of Mumbai if you leave those places and only concentrating on the age old myths that most of the travel agencies and tour operator shows to you.

In this series, we will take you to all the places which are the real Mumbai, which forms the boundaries of the new Mumbai along with the age old definition of it and give diversity to it.

Let’s start with Thane which is a suburb of Mumbai as you find most of the people call it. Thane has always been an integral part of Mumbai and with the changes it has become the new hub of Mumbai. If you talk about me, I will call it the heaven for street photographers and backpackers who want to understand the real Mumbai and its culture. Most of the companies have changed their base from Mumbai to Thane and hence, providing a new meaning to the people here. Their livelihood has been changed in the recent years and you can see the diversification of culture, variety of scenery and life that rivals any city in the world, the urban energy fused with a touch of rural energy that consumes you and endless interest that keeps you wanting more. 

I have started photographing Thane recently and found a different pace here, have talked with the people, understanding their problems and how they cope with all this, is like a new phenomenon in my life. And it would be so selfish for not to share with the world. And that is the real motto of Vagadiaries, to bring the roads and destinations less traveled and talked about. 

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