Tag: portrait
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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. 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. 49
Selvam was hanging out at the Kolam Contest in Mylapore I blogged about a few months ago.  He was interested in the Kodak Jiffy camera I was carrying around, so I snapped his photo in front of this green background.  I decided to hold his photo for posting until I reached number 49….
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Stranger No. 48
To those of us who have lived in colder climes, it always seems odd to think that people in Chennai are ever cold. But it’s quite common to see people covering their ears, especially, during these “cold” months, when the temperature rarely drops below 70 Fahrenheit. People can be seen wearing thin earmuffs, thick wool…
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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. 46
Normally I start with the photo. But Stranger No. 46 is difficult, and I wanted to give the background first. Where I live, the sight of poverty is common. In photography, I think it’s a subject that requires care. I try not to take advantage of human suffering just to “get a good shot” –…
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Strangers Nos. 44 and 45
I ran into this family at the local “fair” – which appears to run the better part of the year, at the “Island Grounds” in Chennai. I asked father if I could photograph him and his young daughter with her big, gorgeous eyes. He had his other daughter and friend’s daughter step into the photo…
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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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Stranger No. 41
This is Yusury. Â I took his picture with an old film camera, the light is not that great and I only got a single shot because I was unsure how to read the situation. Â This is in a small village on the banks of the Kinabantangan River in Borneo, Malaysia. Â Yusury is a boatmaker –…