I found these in the window of an antiques shop in Mumbai’s Chor Bazaar. Two things have transformed them into powerful symbols -- their overlapping arrangement on the shelf of the window, and the water stain that seems to link two of the three frames. All of these people, once proud enough to pose in their best for a professional photographer, are treated harshly by time. One of them loses his head entirely. Another is about to be enveloped by shadow. A stain disfigures the matte of the photograph of the couple. It also seems to flow directly into the severed head of the man below it. I converted this image to black and white -- it is essentially an image made of other black and white photographs. People used to have their photographs taken as a link to posterity -- they hoped their descendants would not forget them. Yet here they are, up for sale in the window of a dusty antique shop.