Tag: 100 strangers
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Stranger No. 100
For the last month or so, Ramki has been on a roll of film that has been waiting to be developed. Ramki is a “sadhu” or Hindu holy man whom I walked by in Varanasi, India (where there are many sadhus!) I stopped and asked for his photo, and he gave a sigh (presumably tourists…
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Stranger No. 95
Rashid was very kind to show us around the Alamgir Mosque, located along the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi. His family have been the caretakers of the mosque for generations. The mosque is surrounded by a Hindu neighborhood and thus doesn’t get as much traffic as other mosques in the city, but it…
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Stranger No. 93
Another no-name stranger. I was at the beach in Chennai, during Ganesha Chaturthi, a festival in which idols of Lord Ganesh are immersed in the sea, and this guy was hanging around, looking for a few rupees to buy some tea. I asked to take a few pictures and he immediately went into this posing…
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Strangers Nos. 89 and 90
These two boys agreed to pose for me. I didn’t catch their names. Basically, I spotted a cool looking building across the street, and as I was snapping the shot, they walked in front of it. And then started clowning around. And then I asked them to pose for this shot. Here’s how it unfolded:
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Stranger No. 88
Victor works for G4S, a security company. His job is to provide security in front of this Coca-Cola bottling facility in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We had a nice little chat as the rain started up. I told him my middle name is Victor, but he wasn’t impressed. He thought it was a good picture though.…
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Stranger No. 86
Mohammed sells these bags to passersby on a street corner in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He was in a very cheerful mood.
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Stranger No. 85
This is Samuel. Standing on a street corner in Freetown, Sierra Leone. I like his shirt. And he’s stranger no. 85.
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Stranger No. 84
Sergeant Marsh stopped me when I was walking through a market in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and asked what I was doing. “Taking photos,” I answered. He had a very serious, stern look and I thought he objected to this. “Have you been shooting all of this?” he asked, gesturing at the people and the flooded…
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Stranger No. 83
This portrait is a bit different than most – but it’s good to have a bit of variety. Â It’s taken with a GoPro camera mounted to a DJI Phantom 2 Quadcopter sitting on the ground. Â Siva, pictured here, had been following me around with interest as I swooped the quadcopter all around his village lake/quarry,…
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Stranger No. 82
I was finishing up a photowalk when I spotted this small shop, and on the chair behind this fellow, another guy was sitting staring stoically to the left. It was him I approached for a photo, and in response he jumped up and hid behind the doorway, refusing to be photographed. This guy, named Murali,…