Ladakh has been a part of the world i’ve wanted to visit for years - after all, why wouldn’t I? There’s amazing monasteries perched on hilltops against dramatic background scenery, there are monks and novices, there are beautiful valleys and rivers small and large and there are, more importantly for me, tribespeople to meet and photograph. And all that in a small area - relatively - easily accessible from New Delhi and, from rumours, relatively inexpensive. So, this summer, I actually went - found a really good guide and fixer who claimed to be able to do everything I wanted to do and we were good to go.
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Why the people of Nagaland captured my heart...
For most tourists and visitors Nagaland, that narrow strip or land at the north east of India, sandwiched between Myanmar and China, is about the Konyak head-hunters and little else. A simple Google search should convince you. Why? The Konyak are different, exotic, remnants of a time the world left behind. And, of course, they make for great images. I travelled to Nagaland to see beyond that, meet the people as they are today and see how the modern world has changed them - if at all. What I discovered were the warmest, kindest, funniest and most hospitable people in the world!
Read MoreLadies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to Mr Teekam Chand Pahari!
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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