Tag: man
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Stranger No. 68
We were buying 5 kilograms of sweet limes, and this guy was loading them up for us. Â With his striking white hair, I had to ask him for a photograph, and had him stand in front of this blue door. Â I didn’t get his name – what, with the limes and all…
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Stranger No. 67
I didn’t get this fellow’s name. I asked him if he wouldn’t mind posing for a photo and indicated the open doorway and asked if he might face that direction for the light. He immediately assumed the position in the photo and held still until I got this shot.
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Stranger No. 63
This is Kris – he was walking around Koyambedu flower market and I thought he had the coolest beard. Said he was from Pondicherry. He really wanted a copy of the photo but there was no way to get him one.
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Stranger No. 62
Ramalingam works at the flower market at Koyambedu, in western Chennai. Here he is again with his colleague Androsh.
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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. 29
This gentleman has a shop selling colorful shawls and scarves. The best I could make out for his name was “Mabipahn.” “I am Muslim,” he clarified. So I shook his hand and said “salaam aleikum.” Then I took his picture and continued on my way…
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Stranger No. 28
Stranger No. 28 is Gantesh. Gantesh sells what we initially thought was multicolored pasta, but what turns out to be made of rice flour instead of wheat flour. Instead of boiling it like you would pasta, you fry it in oil to soften it. He must have had 25 or 30 different shapes. When I…
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Stranger No. 25
Viresh sells garlic and ginger in the market. We didn’t chat long.
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Stranger No. 24
This, as best as I could understand, is “Palleh.” He sells fruits and vegetables in Secunderabad, which until recently was a “twin” city with Hyderabad, but was relatively recently merged. He wasn’t all that keen about being photographed, but I asked him and he agreed, so here he is.