Look closer at the things most people walk past.

I have a habit of photographing beautiful manhole covers. Sometimes the most ordinary things under our feet tell us something about a place: its history, identity, industry, infrastructure, or something important that happened nearby.

I first started noticing them after learning about the designed manhole covers of Chandigarh. Chandigarh was India's first major planned city after Independence, and some older covers carry a representation of the city plan itself.

Since then, I look down when I walk through a new place. These small pieces of design are easy to walk over, but they can become clues to reading a city.

Architecture isn't always something you have to look up to see. Sometimes, you have to look down.