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Standing before the façade of Hawa Mahal — the Palace of Winds — I understood why it was built the way it was. Not for kings to look out from, but for women who were never meant to be seen. Each of these 953 intricately carved jharokha was a private eye, a breath of air in a world of walls. I chose black and white deliberately. Color would have told you pink sandstone, a famous landmark, a postcard. Without color, it becomes something older — a rhythm, a geometry, a living pattern that repeats endlessly upward like a prayer or a heartbeat. The flatness of the facade becomes depth. The shadow inside each latticed window becomes weight. I wasn\'t photographing a building. I was photographing invisibility made visible — the silence of 1799 frozen into stone.
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