The iconic Mumbai bridge is a photographer's delight. It can be captured from a variety of locations and changes colours and moods with the time of the day. Every mega city needs that one icon, a sharply defining symbol. Think Sydney, New York or London and we think of the Opera House, the Statue of Liberty or the London Eye. Dubai has the Burj Khalifa and San Francisco its Golden Gate.
What’s central to all these landmarks, as the designer of the Burj Khalifa remarked, is that they need to be recognised in a glance and can be replicated as a sketch or a graphic using the minimum of strokes. Since it was inaugurated in 2009, the Bandra-Worli Sea Link has become Mumbai's icon. An elegant cable-stayed structure that spans the Mahim Bay, it frames a sweeping vista that encompasses the curve of the Bandra, Mahim, Prabhadevi and Worli sea fronts.
Like the Golden Gate Bridge, this structure is a photographer’s delight given that it can be captured from a variety of locations and that it changes colours and moods with the time of the day. But what is truly fascinating is that each of the places that offers the best views of this structure has a fort to view it from. The Sea Link not only connects physical locations, it also connects moments in the city's history.
I've shot these pictures over the five years in which the bridge has been in operation, during different seasons and at various times of day.
