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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. 80
Bhatma was hanging around near a coffee shop where a group of us were standing around at the end of a photowalk. She showed my wife some puppies – not sure why. She was extremely animated and laughing. We both snapped a couple of pictures and realized why she was so cheerful. Sweet lady –
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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