Shamin Kulkarni’s photo album: Tide Of Silence


Editor’s Note: This series moves like the sea it observes—restless, repetitive, and quietly overwhelming. In monochrome, the world is stripped to its bare emotional grain: sky, water, wind, and the fragile presence of those who stand before them. Birds scatter across a bruised sky like unfinished thoughts. The shoreline stretches into distance, carrying with it the residue of absence—boats left behind, chairs unoccupied, figures moving through vastness as if searching for something already lost. There is no spectacle here, only persistence. Waves return, again and again, rehearsing memory. The horizon refuses closure. Even human presence feels temporary—dwarfed by the slow, indifferent rhythm of the sea. Tide of Silence is not about solitude as isolation, but as a condition of being—where the world continues, immense and unanswering, and we learn to stand within it, listening.


Shamin is an FTII alumni and a professional cinematographer whose passion lies in still photography. Loves cinema, travelling and his close group of friends.

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