Mr Pahari is a street photographer plying his trade - and what a trade it is - on the streets of Jaipur, a few dozen meters away from Hawa Mahal (also known as the Palace of the Winds). Armed with a camera built more than 100 years ago, a bucket of water and a piece of cloth in lieu of a backdrop, Mr Pahari shoots, develops and sells portraits of his clients and has been doing so for the past 30 years, just like his father and his father’s father before him. The portraits he takes are reminiscent of those images we see in museums only they feature us, dressed in our colourful, branded, every day t-shirts and shorts - a far departure from those elegant and timeless portraits of the late Victorian era.
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