Hi there!

I am Sanat. A writer. That is the word I have used for myself for the longest, even through the years it paid for nothing.

So when my parents gifted me my first camera, I saw no other path better suited for me. I still use it, and I have come to think of it as something like a prism — the thing I hold up to see what the world is actually made of.

What keeps coming back through it is marketplaces. The culture inside them, and the colour of the people who run them. Bringing that to a wider audience is the whole idea of buyr.

For years I travelled alone whenever I could — small towns, family workshops, one kitchen after another, usually on leave from a corporate job writing content strategy.

Somewhere in that, a pattern got hard to ignore. Nearly every business that had actually lasted had a woman inside it. Sometimes she ran it. Sometimes she was the reason it survived a bad year, standing just out of frame. buyr started as a way of naming her, on purpose, every time.