For more than a month, Scroll.in's photographers spread out through more than 15 states to cover the elections from the point of view of the people who matter the most: the voters.  The photographers swapped their SLRs for their phones, uploading the images to Instagram in the service’s distinctive square format. The project was by curated Open magazine photo editor Ritesh Uttamchandani and photographer Prashant Vishwanathan.

Here are some of the defining images they captured.


Supporters cower as Narendra Modi's departing helicopter creates a dust cloud at a public meet in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Photo by @ravimishraindia



Residents of Sangroor, Punjab, demonstrate their support for the Aam Aadmi Party as they arrive for a public meet by party leader Arvind Kejriwal. Photo by @baldie_ak



Strong winds upend chairs set up for Congress president Sonia Gandhi's election campaign address in Amethi. Photo by @Anand Singh



 A group of men from Dhubri, Assam, climb an abandoned  aircraft ramp outside Guwahati Airport as they wait for the arrival of their relatives to cast their votes. Photo by@Arkadripta1



Voters queue up in the Baba Nagri area of Kangan, approximately 50 km from Srinagar. Photo by @shahjaveed



Voters outside a pooling booth in Asharambari, Tripura. Photo by @Arkadripta1



A worker at a press in Ahmedabad dries long strips of fabric printed with Indian National Congress symbols.



Yesappa Dange proceeds to cast his vote after helping his visually impaired father, Samuel, in Bidar, Karnataka. Photo by @harshavadlamani



An election official goes through documents in a makeshift storage room for Electronic Voting Machines in a college in Bhagalpur, Bihar. Photo by @atishp



A celebrity displays his inked finger outside a polling booth in Mumbai. Photo by @riteshuttamchandani



Forty-year-old Samir Mukherjee begins to pack up his sound system at the end of a rally by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in Sonarpore. Photo by @soumyasankarbose



Bharatdas Bapu, a priest and the only voter in Banej, Gir, crosses the river Gadh Ganga or Choti Ganga to reach the polling booth. Photo by @baldie_ak



Social activist Jharna Achariya offers flowers at the grave of a comrade in Lalgarh. Maoist activity in the area has prevent people here voting in elections for much of the past decade. Photo by @soumyasankarbose



Shyam Saran Negi outside the polling booth in Kalpa village, Himachal Pradesh.  The 97-year-old former schoolteacherwas the first to vote in independent Indian's first election in 1951. Photo by @arkadripta1