Local Commuters at Churchgate Railway Station in Mumbai

Specifications

• 6″ x 6″ Magnum Square print
• Fuji Crystal Archival Matte paper
• Signed on verso by Raghu Rai
• Mint condition

Artist's Statement 

"I was shooting in Mumbai for a book project in 1996. I had heard of

overcrowded local trains arriving into the center of the city - a flood of people who would then disappear in different directions. Sure enough, I reached Churchgate railway station - the busiest place in the heart of the cIty - at dam. | stood there in awe and amazement, with an unimaginable and overpowering feeling of the human deluge. It took less than a minute for thousands of commuters to vanish in various directions. The plattorm was empty again until three or four minutes later, when more trains would arrive and bring in another deluge

"More than the crowds, I wanted to capture so many bodies melting into

one another and dissipating in a mad rush to cet to their respective places of wOrk. So put my camera on a bit-high switch box almost in the middle of the space between two tracks. and exposed it at one-eighth of a second in order to capture the deluge. But the person reading the morning newspaper or waiting for someone remained still