My name is Taushik Mandal, everyone calls me 'Tau'.
I live with my family in Barcelona.
I have used photography as a medium to explore the ordinary since 2007. In long-form documentary practice I find that only by visiting the same places over months and years does the ordinary begin to reveal itself.
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There is a moment that does not announce itself, when leaving becomes imaginable. It is not a crisis, not an argument, not a single failure. It arrives quietly, after repetition has worn something thin. A city does not reject you outright. It simply stops responding in the way you expected. What once felt provisional begins to…
Long-form documentary photography is not about capturing spectacle, but about understanding how environments shape identity over time. In this essay, I explore the idea of belonging to a place, not as an abstract concept, but as something that emerges through repeated return, quiet observation, and accumulated experience behind the lens. Through photographic work anchored in rural…