Sumit Dayal is born in 1981? He is an independant photograph based in Delhi.
The picture tells us the story of two young friends who could be Ali and Hassan, as in Khaled Hosseini's novel, The Kite Runners.
These two boys, who belonged to very different social classes and religious backgrounds, are also reminiscent of Sumit's childhood when he used to fly kites with his muslim friend Wahid in Kathmandu. For him, the snow capped mountains of Afghanistan in the background resonate the Himalayas in Nepal.
He uses photography as a medium to keep his childhood memories still alive and plays with the effect of the sepia tone that creates a strong feeling of nostalgia and going back to the past.
The blurring of the figures is also just enough to see the children but not enough to recognize them, making it possible for the viewer to appropriate the photograph for himself, as Sumit did with his childhood memories.
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