There are many Indias as there are eye to behold them. In my case as an angrez (foreigner), what my eyes experienced became my India. It is this India whose images were gathered over a span of eight years (1969-78), that unfolds in the following album. It is of course but a glimpse, more connected to the past—a time of less than fifty percent of today’s billion plus population and before the digital-driven modernizations that have now seeped into the most remote villages. Mine is an India that no longer exists except in the images here and my ever-fading memory-just as has our life of that time. Much of my travels on the Subcontinent focused on the Himalayan regions of Kashmir, Lahaul, Ladakh, Zanskar and Garhwal, which are detailed elsewhere on this site. But from time to time I would head south to the teeming cities and temple enclaves, by rail, bus, taxi, cart and foot. Naturally as a visitor my eyes were drawn to difference, what was new to my experience, and this dominated my view. The earliest photos, those from Delhi and the Ganges plain are mostly in grayscale, as poverty and existing stock after long, overland journeys had exhausted a meager color supply. These early images reflect a fascination with street life, which fades in later work, underscoring the thesis that it is difference that attracts my photographer’s eye.
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INDIA