Walking along the warm sand as the fierce heat of the day finally began to break, I watched how the angled sun stretched everything out, turning the scattered figures on the shore into striking, elongated silhouettes. A few bathers waded into the sea, while a lone cyclist selling coconuts, tirelessly ringing the notification bell, cut a sharp, solitary line across the bright, empty expanse. I took this photograph to hold onto the sleepy stillness of that South Indian afternoon, a fleeting moment of everyday mundanity and sleepy silence before the arrival of the evening chill.
Kudle Beach, Gokarna, Karnataka, India, 2025
