The Camera Became an Extension of Her Vision — Nikita Gorawara

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Nikita Gorawara grew up in the heart of Delhi alongside her sister; both of them were nurtured by a mother who understood intuitively that creativity needed to be cultivated. Each summer, she enrolled them in different activities, trusting that something would take root. Art groups, workshops, and classes — through them all, Nikita’s eye was quietly sharpening.

The turning point came during her graduation in fine arts, when a serendipitous encounter with photography changed everything. She borrowed a friend’s camera to submit an assignment—and something clicked. Not just the shutter, but something inside her: ‘It was so much easier to show through images how I saw the world.’ She became a photographer and eventually found her truest expression in black-and-white, in the realm of post-processing, in the monochrome timelessness that photographs in colour can never quite hold.