About Me

My Story

Heyo! I’m Sanjith Kalpat—a high schooler and an aspiring street photographer from the Boston area who spends an unhealthy amount of time wandering around with a camera, pretending I know what I’m doing. I like chasing the light, for within that light holds stories. I have always been an observer, and I want my street photographs to capture the tiny, chaotic moments that everyone else is too busy to notice. 

I didn’t grow up thinking I would be a “photographer.” I just liked walking. The camera came later. At first it was, quite frankly, an excuse to avoid talking to people, then as an excuse to talk to people, and now as a way to make sense of all the noise around me. 

Most of my recent work was shot in Italy, Boston, New York City, though I’ve recently realized that the best photos happen when I stop trying so hard to make something happen and just let free of expectation. 

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I don’t take myself too seriously, but I take the life lived on the street seriously. The way a shopkeeper leans into his window light. A kid pressing his face against a train door. A street artist creating work in hopes for recognition. Those moments feel like home.

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Things I’ve Somehow Accomplished Along the Way (with photography of course):

• Shot thousands of frames on digital (most of them terrible, some of them keepers)

• Creator of a street photography book (coming soon), combining images, poems, and short stories

• Honorable Mention in Tokyo International Foto Awards (fine art--abstract)

• Scholastic Art & Writing Gold Key in Photography

• Featured in school exhibitions, museum gallery nights, and arts showcases

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What This Blog is About:

To be frank, In the Street Frame is mostly for myself. It was a project I thought of a couple of months ago and wrote countless posts yet was too scared to put my thoughts and work out there. Anyway, this blog is all about street photography and will include:

• Deep dives into how I think about framing, composition, and visual storytelling

• Lessons I have learned from artists and art forms

• Trends I see in street photography

• Tips, tricks, mistakes, and everything I’m learning on the way to becoming better

• Photo/artist talks I get inspired by

• Rants about art, light, shutter speeds, and people who walk into my shot

• And probably way too many photos I’m proud of (and a few I’m not)
   

If you want clean and perfect photos…you’re in the wrong place. If you like the messiness of real life, welcome. Hope we can get lost together:)