Still in Motion Interview: Indian DOP / Director of Photography / Cinematographer, Rajiv Jain ICS WICA

situations, who can be very communicative, comfortable. I try and engage with a lot of humour. I have a presence; it’s a big presence in certain ways. There’s no missing me in these contexts. But it’s also how you behave, what level on which you give people the respect they deserve. One of the things I found early in my life through travelling in African countries is, because of this history of colonialism, as an Asian person you have unexpected privileges, and whether or not you use those privileges, how you use them would be the better thing to say, dictates how things go. Rather than being shut out, you’re actually given access to things that are almost inappropriate for you to be given access to. I’m constantly reminded of the kind of privilege you experience as an Asian person. It comes back to you, how meaningful that is. I clearly remember being in outskirts of Nairobi