Tag: 100 strangers
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Stranger No. 55
Illamalli (spelled phonetically as I heard it) is one of the thousands of (mostly) women who weave flowers into long chains using the fibers of banana leaves. They are sold for about 40 rupees (65 US cents) for a length from the tip of the fingers to the elbow. Indian women commonly wear such flowers…
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Strangers Nos. 53 and 54
“Duray” and “D. Gajenthiran” sell flowers on Badrian Street near Parry’s corner in Chennai. (for more info on that market, see this post on my other blog).  I’m not completely sure if Duray is the name of the guy on the left, or if it’s just the first name of the guy on the right.  We…
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Stranger No. 52
Chandaran is a Hindu priest working in a small temple near Parry’s Corner, in Chennai. My wife got a much better shot of him (in my opinion), which she has agreed to share:
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Stranger No. 51
Here is a photo of Bala, stranger number 51. He’s on his cell phone, but I “asked” him for a photo using hand gestures and we talked only elsewhere. He sells flowers at the flower market near Parry’s Corner, in north-central Chennai.
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Stranger No. 50
Arun sells bulk flowers at “Parry’s”, a neighborhood in Chennai where flowers are sold along the entire length of the street. Not much else to say about him, other than I’m halfway done with this project! Thanks for helping me out, Arun.
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Stranger No. 47
Andre (or Andrei) I met at the Saturday Night Market in Goa, a weekly happening that brings in tourists and locals alike. Â Andre and the friend he was talking to are from Belarus, and they both spend the tourist season here in Goa, and then go back for the rest of the year. Â Presumably that…
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Stranger No. 43
Pooja lives at a “dhobikhana” in Chennai. This is a facility built by the British in the early 1900s, where thousands of Indians have been employed over the last century washing, drying and ironing clothes. This particular dhobikhana is the second largest in India. The people who work here have an uncertain future, because their…
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Stranger No. 42
Ramaswamy is a jolly guy I ran into at the Mylapore Festival. I asked him if I could take his picture and he agreed. Then he asked for 20 rupees for a cup of coffee, presumably in exchange. I assume the gesture he is making with his hands means something, and there was a booth…
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Strangers Nos. 36 and 37
You always see mothers and babies, but I think there can be something especially poignant about fathers and babies. Â I passed Saiful (father) and Ain (baby) in a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, and was struck how they were in their own world, enjoying each others’ company without regard to what was going on…
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Stranger No. 34
I ran into Zadar on Christmas day, during an impromptu photowalk to the one of the most crowded shopping districts in India – T. Nagar – on one of the busiest shopping days. Zadar was selling some sort of sweet fuzzy stuff in plastic bags, which resembles cotton candy in taste, but looked rather like…