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Stranger No. 60
Farida was walking around a neighborhood where we were doing a photowalk – she was carrying a plastic bag with some sort of treasures all her own. She must have been 5 or 6 – but behaved like she was going on 25. I asked to take her photo and asked her name – when
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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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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. 30
This little girl was with four women sitting at the roadside edge of a vacant lot selling baubles and cheap jewelry and, well, what seemed to be actual deer musk glands. I asked the “aunties” whether it was OK to photograph the girl and they agreed and she gladly obliged. Not wanting to leave them
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Strangers Nos. 17 and 18
This is Indriani and Suttimetta. In India, it is a common practice for women to get up early in the morning, sweep and wet the pavement in front of their homes, and then, using rice flour (or chalk), create a design called a kolam. They are generally all different, usually symmetrical, and as far as