Ira Sen

Fashion & portrait · Studio, Mumbai

Roll 07 — the sitters, spring.

Scroll runs the loupe down the sheet. Open a frame to see it whole.

Frame 01. Hand at the chin. He held it longer than I asked. Frame 02. The laugh I did not ask for. Frame 03. Stool, both feet down. Too still. Frame 04. Lean. Better. Trousers catch the key. Frame 05. Looked up at the lamp. Keep. Frame 06. Eyes back on me. Frame 07. Beard, thumb, thinking. Frame 08. Same, a half-second later. The one. Frame 09. Sunglasses on indoors. His idea. Frame 10. Two of them, the frame finally wide enough. Frame 11. Turned on the stool. Pick for the book. Frame 12. Shoulder down, chin up. Frame 13. He stood, she stayed. Frame 14. Both looking past me. Frame 15. Hair takes the whole top of the frame. Frame 16. Chin on hand. Quiet one. Frame 17. Straight to lens. First frame of the roll. Frame 18. Last frame before the lamp went. Frame 19. Hands together. He was counting. Frame 20. Hands apart. Frame 21. Glasses off. He asked for this one. Frame 22. Wide, both. Shadow on the muslin. Frame 23. Turn, hair, turn. Frame 24. Last one. Lights down.

Series

  1. Weight of Cloth

    Editorial · 2025 · twelve sitters

    One roll each. The clothes do the talking, the sitter decides when.

  2. Sitters

    Portrait · ongoing

    A stool, a muslin, forty minutes. Nobody is told how to stand.

  3. After Hours

    Fashion · 2024

    Shot after the clients left, on whatever was still lit.

About

Ira Sen photographs people the way a contact sheet remembers them: frame by frame, before anyone decides which one counts. One room in Lower Parel, one stool, available for editorial, lookbooks and portraits anywhere a plane goes.

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Lower Parel, Mumbai. Replies within a day, sittings within a month.