I am a documentary photographer based in Barcelona, working on long-form photography projects developed over extended periods of time. The work grows out of repeated presence and observation, returning to the same places and situations until they begin to reveal themselves through familiarity rather than emphasis.
The projects follow everyday life as it unfolds through routine, gesture, memory, and continuity. Rather than searching for decisive moments or spectacle, I am interested in how meaning accumulates slowly, often across sequences of images that gain weight through duration and proximity.
My approach remains open to chance and the unexpected. I pay attention to moments that are unplanned or unresolved, where something shifts subtly without announcing itself. These moments are not treated as exceptions, but as part of how lived experience actually operates — fragmented, partial, and quietly revealing.
The work is developed slowly, often over several years in places such as Barcelona, Paris, Valencia, London, and rural Bulgaria. Time, repetition, and sustained engagement shape each project, allowing relationships and environments to determine their own internal structure. Editing and sequencing are central to this process, with individual images understood as part of a larger, evolving whole.
The projects are created with long-form book formats in mind, alongside editorial publication and exhibition.
— Taushik Mandal