Photo-graph-ie

Art of turning photos into graphs.

Short talk

ft. 3 demos.

By Rasagy Sharma.

For IndieWebClub Bangalore's

Special Anniversary Edition Meetup.

May 30, 2026.

“
To photograph is to confer importance.”
– Susan Sontag

Photography is more than merely taking photos.

We capture moments that we want to hold on to.
Context can change what matters: Photos for noticing, remembering, celebrating, archiving, grieving…
Photography becomes journaling, a form of data collection.

I love taking photos.

I hate what social media does with them.

How can we move beyond rigid, templatized formats, & create unique, expressive ways to show data in a set of photos?

#1

A walk along the streets of Indiranagar

rasagy.in/photo-graphs/indiranagar-steps/

Photos from my neighborhood, transformed into a dynamic composition.

#2

Blessings from Fuji-san

rasagy.in/photo-graphs/fuji-san/

Mapping photos from a trip to narrate my experience as you scroll by.

#3

Visualizing moments from a Viz conference

rasagy.in/photo-graphs/vizchitra-2025/

Exploring the experience of a conference, from the eyes of my phone camera.

“
Photography is a way of collecting the world, of making a visual inventory that augments our memory and reshapes how we experience time.”
– Geoff Dyer

How can you make these?

My process

  • Curate photos
  • Extract metadata (Python)
  • Add details to a dataset
  • Explore designs
  • Select the right coding library (P5.js / Mapbox / D3.js…)
  • Host on Github Pages

Resources & Inspiration

Thank you!