About Abhay Desai

The subconscious of a place, not apparent at surface level.

Abhay Desai is a street photographer in Melbourne. By day he works in data science; the photographs are made in the gaps — on the tram, between stations, on the way to work.

Every frame is a single exposure, blurred in camera. A slow shutter, a moving city, and what comes back is not what the street looked like but what was underneath it.

He grew up understanding the passing and the permanent as the same thing seen twice. The photographs are an attempt to hold both at once: transient moments, given life.