About

The idea for this project came from a blog post, “How to Photograph Strangers.”  I had recently moved from Namibia – a country of 2 million people, where amazing landscapes and animals make photography easy if you’ve got a long lens – to India, with its 1.2 billion people, many of them crowded into cities several times the size of Namibia’s population.  The long lens is packed away, and suddenly I need a short lens for “street photography.”

But street photography can be unnerving.  How do you walk up to a stranger in a strange country and ask them if you can shoot their portrait?

That’s the point of this project.   If you do this 100 times, you’ll get better at it.

And you’ll meet a bunch of interesting people, hopefully.