Life in Frames
About nine thousand photographs sit in Dhruv's archive, most of them never shown. Rather than pour them onto a page, the archive opens in chapters: a theme, an editor's note, a date range, and the story behind each frame. The same pictures travel to Instagram; the captions, context and rights live here.
Editor's note goes here: what these frames are, the years they span, why they open the archive.
Six most recent posts from @imdhruvbrahmbhatt, refreshed a few times a day and cached, so this page loads whether or not Instagram does.
Only web-size derivatives (WebP, 2000px long edge, GPS and device data stripped) are published.
A frame without all three cannot appear on the site.
Identifiable people are published only with consent; number plates and documents are blurred.
Each chapter is also a carousel series on Instagram that links back here.
Requests to reuse a photograph editorially, license it, or order a print go through the contact form under "Photo rights". Photographs are © Dhruv Brahmbhatt unless credited otherwise.