Never trust general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

– Sherlock Holmes

The series Midnight in Mumbai (2012-2017) is based on the gestures of observation and explores the phenomenon of the magical in photography. ‘The return to the magical,’ Verlak writes, ‘has less to do with things we see and more to do with how we see them. In that sense, giving yourself to an image is to walk into a time and space of magic, which introduces a reality different from an empirical one, and for this, metaphorically speaking, we give ourselves to photography over and over again.’