The photographer Dayanita Singh met Mona Ahmed by chance in 1989 while on a photojournalism assignment for a British newspaper. After spending hours being photographed, the young eunuch Mona then refused to allow the images to be published. The meeting resulted in a lifelong relationship, one that Singh herself struggles to put into words—‘friend, sibling, parent, lover, confidante’. The work Mona and Myself 2013 is what Singh calls a ‘moving still image’ and captures Mona listening to her favourite song—Rasik Balma sung by Lata Mangeshkar in the 1956 Hindi-language film Chori Chori—in the artist’s studio in 2013. Singh explains: ‘At first, she appears like someone who has just [woken up], then she gets the song and finally she becomes the song. This was another breakthrough for me, the idea of the moving still image, not video, not still photography, but something else.’