Tag: portrait
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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,…
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Stranger No. 81
This is Indrani, who was buying something at this shop on a busy street. Â I wanted to photograph her against this shop, without the shopkeeper necessarily in the background, but sometimes it’s awkward asking people to move. Â So this is what I ended up with.
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Stranger No. 79
We met this fellow at Elliot Beach, close to our home in Chennai. He was just watching the ocean when I asked for his photo: After I snapped his picture with an old film camera (not that old – a 90’s era Ricoh) he followed us around from a distance as we spent the next…
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Stranger No. 78
A. Rajendran sells small fruits locally known as “sapota” or “chickoo” – which actually originated in the Americas (sapodillas)! He works in the fruit market at Koyambedu in Chennai, India.
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Stranger No. 77
Arun works unloading truckloads of bananas at Koyambedu’s fruit market in Chennai.
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Stranger No. 76
Das was riding by with a giant bicycle-cart loaded with these red bananas. I stopped him for a photo, but my wife’s photo was much better: